Abstract
We remove the sharp separation between multistep compound and multistep direct emission in the Feshbach-Kerman-Koonin (FKK) derivation of preequilibrium processes. In addition to the original multistep compound mechanism, we find a new class of multistep processes arising from linking of the direct and compound chains. There can be additional scatterings in unbound [ital P] space before the quasibound compound [ital Q] space is entered, or after it is left. We provide a theoretical justification for the presence of [ital P][r arrow][ital Q] transitions, which are needed to account for experimentally observed preequilibrium spectra. Our formalism is applied to the analysis of the 14 MeV [sup 93]Nb([ital n],[ital n][prime]) reaction, using modified distorted-wave Born approximation (DWBA) matrix elements which include an inverse [ital S]-matrix factor. Since the dominant contribution to multistep compound emission comes from the 2[ital p]1[ital h] [ital Q] stage, the linking of the multistep chains results in flux bypassing this stage, resulting in a reduced multistep compound emission and an increased emission from the compound nucleus.
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