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The work is devoted to measuring the angular distribution of 4.43-MeV γ-rays produced in inelastic scattering of 14.1-MeV neutrons by 12C nuclei. A portable ING-27 neutron generator (designed and fabricated at VNIIA, Moscow) with a built-in 64-pixel silicon α-detector was used as a source of tagged neutrons. The γ-rays of characteristic nuclear radiation from 12C were detected with a spectrometric system that consisted of 22 γ-detectors based on NaI(Tl) crystals arranged around the carbon target. The measured angular distribution of 4.43-MeV γ-rays is analyzed and compared with the results of other published experimental works.
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Original Russian Text © V.M. Bystritsky, D.N. Grozdanov, A.O. Zontikov, Yu.N. Kopach, Yu.N. Rogov, I.N. Ruskov, A.B. Sadovsky, V.R. Skoy, Yu.N. Barmakov, E.P. Bogolyubov, V.I. Ryzhkov, D.I. Yurkov, 2016, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Fizika Elementarnykh Chastits i Atomnogo Yadra, 2016.
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Bystritsky, V.M., Grozdanov, D.N., Zontikov, A.O. et al. Angular distribution of 4.43-MeV γ-rays produced in inelastic scattering of 14.1-MeV neutrons by 12C nuclei. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 13, 504–513 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S154747711604004X
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