Photonuclear reactions on the cadmium isotopes 106,108Cd at the bremsstrahlung endpoint energy of 55.5 MeV

Abstract

The gamma-activation technique was used to measure the absolute yields of photonuclear reactions on the cadmium isotopes ^106,108Cd. The results obtained in this way were compared with the results of the calculations based on the statistical model. For reactions on the isotope ¹⁰⁸Cd, agreement between these theoretical and experimental results is good, but the experimental ratio of the yields of photoproton and photoneutron reactions on the isotope ¹⁰⁶Cd differs substantially from its theoretical counterpart. The results of our present study are discussed from the point of view of the production of bypassed nuclei in the p-process of nucleosynthesis.