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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 146, 2017
ND 2016: International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology
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Article Number | 11011 | |
Number of page(s) | 3 | |
Section | Nuclear Reaction Measurements | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714611011 | |
Published online | 13 September 2017 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714611011
242Pu absolute neutron-capture cross section measurement
1 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
2 North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
3 Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87544, USA
a e-mail: buckner4@llnl.gov
Published online: 13 September 2017
The absolute neutron-capture cross section of 242Pu was measured at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center using the Detector for Advanced Neutron-Capture Experiments array along with a compact parallel-plate avalanche counter for fission-fragment detection. During target fabrication, a small amount of 239Pu was added to the active target so that the absolute scale of the 242Pu(n,γ) cross section could be set according to the known 239Pu(n,f) resonance at En,R = 7.83 eV. The relative scale of the 242Pu(n,γ) cross section covers four orders of magnitude for incident neutron energies from thermal to ≈ 40 keV. The cross section reported in ENDF/B-VII.1 for the 242Pu(n,γ) En,R = 2.68 eV resonance was found to be 2.4% lower than the new absolute 242Pu(n,γ) cross section.
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