Abstract
The differential cross section for neutron-proton bremsstrahlung has been measured at an incident energy of 4.8 MeV and outgoing nucleon angles of θ n = 35°, θ p = 25°. An upper limit of d 2σ/ dΩ n dΩ p = 210 μ b · sr −2 was obtained. The experimental method was unusual in that the hydrogen target was a stilbene scintillation crystal, which also served as recoil proton detector, and the bremsstrahlung photon was detected in addition to the two nucleons. A theoretical estimate of the cross section corresponding to that measured in this experiment was made using an on-shell approximation and gave a result of 89 μb · sr −2. The measured upper limit exceeds this and other theoretical predictions but nevertheless represents a marked improvement over previous measurements of n-p bremsstrahlung at energies below 100 MeV.
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