A continuum of doubly charged particles has been observed from the interaction of 12-and 14-Mev deuterons with tritium. They are shown to arise from the H 3 (d,2n)He 3 reaction. Absolute differential cross sections are obtained. No evidence for the formation of a dineutron in a bound state, or in a well-defined virtual state, was found. D URING the course of an investigation of the interaction of 12-and 14-Mev deuterons with tritium, we observed a sizable cross section for the emission of low-energy nuclei which appeared to exhibit the ionization characteristics of doubly charged ions. Experiments were consequently performed to determine the charge of the ions and, having established that they were indeed doubly charged, to identify their mass.The experimental arrangement is quite similar to that previously described 1 : a well-collimated beam of cyclotron-accelerated deuterons enters a reaction chamber in which the H 3 gas is confined to the central region, and the detectors are photographic emulsions arranged around the target in such a way as to record the charged reaction products at 2.5° intervals with an angular resolution of =bf°.The reaction products were identified as to charge on the basis of their specific ionization. In order to resolve singly and doubly charged ions, we used El emulsions which were processed by a combination of the two-solution and cold techniques. 2 A warm stage of 5-minutes duration was found to be optimum from the standpoint of discrimination between charge-1 and charge-2 particles whose range is less than 32 /JL. The -KNOWN H 3 -KNOWN He 3 IKUNKNOWN PARTICLES 16-32/A FROM END OF TRACK 0-16/A FROM END OF TRACK ft%1 i-idC.-A-bia LL. NUMBER OF GAPS FIG. 1.Results of gap-counts on the last 32 fx of track for the "unknown" particles and for He 3 particles and tritons elastically scattered by deuterons. The ranges of all tracks gap-counted are approximately the same so that counts were made at approximately the same depth within the emulsion. difficulty of identifying low-energy particles from their tracks in nuclear emulsion arises from the saturation properties of emulsion for highly ionizing particles.Identification was accomplished by "gap-counting" 3 one or two 16-/x segments, starting from the end of each heavily ionizing track in the range interval 16-100 JJ, (corresponding to 4-13 Mev He 3 nuclei) and comparing these results to corresponding counts on tracks made by He 3 particles and tritons elastically scattered by deuterons. Figure 1 shows the results of gap-counts on the particles of unknown charge with those from tritons and He 3 nuclei. It is seen that, even when counts are made over the last 16/x of track, the resolution is almost complete. We thus identify the particles under consideration as being doubly charged. It now remains to determine the source of these particles. This is done on the basis of energy and momentum conservation. The d-\-T interaction permits the emission of both charge 1 and charge 2 particles, the energetically possible reactions being :(1) d+T->d...