Oppenheimer-Phillips process

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The Oppenheimer-Phillips process or strip reaction is a special type of nuclear reaction.

In this reaction a nucleus reacts with the neutron of a deuterium core but the proton possible that would otherwise lack the energy to overcome the Coulomb barrier.

An example is

¹²C(d,p)¹³C.

It was described by J. Robert Oppenheimer and Melba Phillips in 1935.

 

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