Excitation of the high energy nuclear continuum in 208Pb by 22 MeV/nucleon 17O and 32S.

The /sup 208/Pb high excitation continuum has been studied using inelastic scattering of 22 MeV/nucleon /sup 17/O and /sup 32/S. The spectra, taken with a magnetic spectrograph, show no evidence for peaks in the 30--100 MeV region of excitation in contrast to published results. The /sup 17/O spectra are found to be remarkably similar to those from medium energy proton scattering.