On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote:
stripping implies a multiple reaction mechanism where one neutron produced > in the first reaction is used by a second reaction. ... We would expect to > see loads of free neutrons floating around waiting for the second reaction > to begin. > Please be so kind as to provide further documentation of this assumption. From what I read of the O-P process, it all occurs in a single step (see the "Mechanism" section, towards the end): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer%E2%80%93Phillips_process Eric