Photonuclear Reactions on the Cadmium isotopes [sup.106,108]Cd at the Bremsstrahlung Endpoint Energy of 55.5 MeV

The gamma-activation technique was used to measure the absolute yields of photonuclear reactions on the cadmium isotopes [sup.106,108]Cd. The results obtained in this way were compared with the results of the calculations based on the statistical model. For reactions on the isotope [sup.108]Cd, agreement between these theoretical and experimental results is good, but the experimental ratio of the yields of photoproton and photoneutron reactions on the isotope [sup.106]Cd differs substantially from its theoretical counterpart. The results of our present study are discussed from the point of view of the production of bypassed nuclei in the p-process of nucleosynthesis.