The energy integrated absolute cross section of the 3He(4He, v)VBe reaction has been determined by an activation measurement, using the branching of the 7Be 53.44 d 1% decay to the 478 keV state in VLi and its subsequent v-decay. Depending on the branching ratio used (10.4% or 15.4%) we obtain a zero-energy nuclear cross section factor of S(0) = 0.56 _+ 0.03 keV. barn or S(0) = 0.38 + 0.03 keV. barn, respectively.

Es werden die Zustandsdiagramme von: Aluminium/Indium, Gallium‐Thallium, Gallium/Silicium, Gallium/Germanium, Indium/Silicium, Indium/Germanium, Thallium/Germanium bestimmt. Die von Valentiner und Mitarbeitern bearbeiteten Zustandsdiagramme des Indiums mit Thallium, Zinn und Blei werden, zum Teil auf Grund neuer Versuche, erörtert. Es wird das Verhalten der Elemente der III. Gruppe zueinander wie zu den Elementen der IV. Gruppe besprochen. Es ergibt sich, daß die Elemente der III. Gruppe sowohl in der Tendenz zur Verbindungsbildung als auch in der Neigung zur Mischbarkeit ein Minimum aller Gruppen darstellen. Es wird eine einfache Heizkamera beschrieben .

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A new and highly sensitive β-NMR method to study adsorbates on single-crystal surfaces is presented. Contrary to conventional NMR, this method combines (via optical pumping) a high, nonthermal polarization of the adsorbed species with a particle counting method. Here, the β-active isotope 8Li is produced in the nuclear reaction D(7Li, 8Li)H using a high-pressure deuterium gas target. The fast 8Li ions are subsequently implanted into a hot graphite block where they thermally diffuse to the surface and desorb. The desorbing thermal velocity 8Li atoms are shaped into an atomic beam. Using a frequency modulated laser beam the atoms are transferred into a single hyperfine state by optical pumping. The so-achieved nuclear polarization of the atoms (before impinging on the single-crystal surface) is approximately 0.8 and can be switched in sign by an adiabatic high-frequency transition. The atoms adsorb on the single-crystal surface and their polarization—either freely decaying on the surface or driven by an external radio-frequency field—is observed via the decay asymmetry of the nuclear β-decay of the 8Li nuclei. This method realizes an effective sensitivity to the active NMR isotope of 5×103 atoms/cm2, which corresponds to a stationary coverage of 10−11 of a monolayer. The typical electron count rate is 400 Hz during β-NMR experiments.

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