Photonuclear reactions on the cadmium isotopes 106,108Cd 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 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 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 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.