Neutron-induced fission cross section of U234 measured at the CERN n_TOF facility

D. Karadimos et al. (n_TOF Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. C 89, 044606 – Published 15 April 2014

Abstract

The neutron-induced fission cross section of U234 has been measured at the CERN n_TOF facility relative to the standard fission cross section of U235 from 20 keV to 1.4 MeV and of U238 from 1.4 to 200 MeV. A fast ionization chamber (FIC) was used as a fission fragment detector with a detection efficiency of no less than 97%. The high instantaneous flux and the low background characterizing the n_TOF facility resulted in wide-energy-range data (0.02 to 200 MeV), with high energy resolution, high statistics, and systematic uncertainties bellow 3%. Previous investigations around the energy of the fission threshold revealed structures attributed to β-vibrational levels, which have been confirmed by the present measurements. Theoretical calculations have been performed, employing the talys code with model parameters tuned to fairly reproduce the experimental data.

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  • Received 21 December 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.89.044606

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Vol. 89, Iss. 4 — April 2014

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