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A METHOD for determining the field surrounding nuclei is to scatter charged particles by the nuclei in question. If the field were of the Coulomb type, the yield of nuclei projected in a given direction under the bombardment of -particles would be proportional to 1/V4, where V is the velocity of the incident -particles. Any deviation from the Coulomb field will manifest itself in a deviation from this relation. The experiments of Chad wick and Bieler1 have shown that such anomalous scattering is very clearly evident in collisions between -particles and protons for -particle velocities corresponding to ranges greater than about 2 cm.
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J. Chadwick and H. Bieler, Phil. Mag., 42, 923; 1921.
Rutherford and Kempton, Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 143, 724; 1934.
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POLLARD, E., MARGENAU, H. Experimental Evidence regarding the Field of the Deuteron. Nature 135, 393 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135393a0
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