Abstract
A fully quantum-mechanical analysis is presented of the process in which an incident proton excites both a nuclear resonance and, by electron emission, also a hole in theK-shell which then decays by X-ray emission. The ratio of the intensities of the X-rays emitted before and after compound-nucleus decay is calculated (a) for the case of an isolated nuclear resonance, and (b) for strongly overlapping resonances. We show that in both cases the measured quantity is a branching ratio. The influence of the energy-resolution of the detectors, of the energy spread of the incident beam, and of the structure of the wave packets describing the individual particles in the incident beam is discussed.
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