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Measurement of the 235 U(n,f) cross section at n_TOF from thermal to 170 keV

Amaducci, S. and Aberle, O. and Andrzejewski, J. and Audouin, L. and Bacak, M. and Balibrea, J. and Barbagallo, M. and Bečvář, F. and Berthoumieux, E. and Billowes, J. and Bosnar, D. and Brown, A. and Caamaño, M. and Calviño, F. and Calviani, M. and Cano-Ott, D. and Cardella, R. and Casanovas, A. and Cerutti, F. and Chen, Y. H. and Chiaveri, E. and Colonna, N. and Cortés, G. and Cortés-Giraldo, M. A. and Cosentino, L. and Damone, L. A. and Diakaki, M. and Domingo-Pardo, C. and Dressler, R. and Dupont, E. and Durán, I. and Fernández-Domínguez, B. and Ferrari, A. and Ferreira, P. and Finocchiaro, P. and Furman, V. and Göbel, K. and García, A. R. and Gawlik, A. and Gilardoni, S. and Glodariu, T. and Gonçalves, I. F. and González-Romero, E. and Griesmayer, E. and Guerrero, C. and Gunsing, F. and Harada, H. and Heinitz, S. and Heyse, J. and Jenkins, D. G. and Jericha, E. and Käppeler, F. and Kadi, Y. and Kalamara, A. and Kavrigin, P. and Kimura, A. and Kivel, N. and Knapova, I. and Kokkoris, M. and Krtička, M. and Kurtulgil, D. and Lo Meo, S. and Leal-Cidoncha, E. and Lederer, C. and Leeb, H. and Lerendegui-Marco, J. and Lonsdale, S. J. and Macina, D. and Manna, A. and Marganiec, J. and Martínez, T. and Masi, A. and Massimi, C. and Mastinu, P. and Mastromarco, M. and Maugeri, E. A. and Mazzone, A. and Mendoza, E. and Mengoni, A. and Milazzo, P. M. and Mingrone, F. and Musumarra, A. and Negret, A. and Nolte, R. and Oprea, A. and Patronis, N. and Pavlik, A. and Perkowski, J. and Porras, I. and Praena, J. and Quesada, J. M. and Radeck, D. and Rauscher, T. and Reifarth, R. and Rubbia, C. and Ryan, J. A. and Sabaté-Gilarte, M. and Saxena, A. and Schillebeeckx, P. and Schumann, D. and Sedyshev, P. and Smith, A. G. and Sosnin, N. V. and Stamatopoulos, A. and Tagliente, G. and Tain, J. L. and Tarifeño-Saldivia, A. and Tassan-Got, L. and Valenta, S. and Vannini, G. and Variale, V. and Vaz, P. and Ventura, A. and Vlachoudis, V. and Vlastou, R. and Wallner, A. and Warren, S. and Weiss, C. and Woods, P. J. and Wright, T. and Žugec, P.. (2020) Measurement of the 235 U(n,f) cross section at n_TOF from thermal to 170 keV. In: Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Applications of Nuclear Techniques (“CRETE19”) Crete, Greece, June 9–15, 2019, 50. p. 2060011.

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Abstract

The 235U(n,f) cross section plays a key role for nuclear physics due to its widespread use as a standard reference for neutron cross section measurements and for neutron flux measurements. Recent experimental data of the fission cross section have suggested the presence of discrepancies around 6-8% with respect to the most used libraries, precisely in the range between 10 keV and 30 keV. In order to shed light on this disagreement, an accurate measurement of the 235U(n,f) fission cross section has been performed at n_TOF facility @CERN, using the standard reactions 6Li(n,t) and 10B(n,alpha) as reference. A custom experimental setup based on a stack of silicon detectors sandwiched between pairs of 235U, 6Li and 10B targets, has been installed along the neutron beam line to intercept the same neutron flux, allowing the detection of the fission fragments and the products of the reference reactions at the same time. Such a technique allows calculation of the cross section via the ldquoratio methodrdquo, by normalizing the 235U(n,f) reaction yields with respect to the reference reactions and to the recommended data in the IAEA libraries; in particular, the integral between 7.8 and 11 eV has been chosen. Accurate Monte Carlo simulations have allowed evaluation of the neutron absorption in the different layers, as well as the detection efficiency of each detector. The data are in excellent agreement with the standard values and highlight the overestimation of the 235U(n,f) cross section between 9 and 18 keV in the most recent libraries.
Faculties and Departments:05 Faculty of Science > Departement Physik > Former Organization Units Physics > Theoretische Physik Astrophysik (Thielemann)
UniBasel Contributors:Rauscher, Thomas
Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item, refereed
Conference or workshop item Subtype:Conference Paper
Publisher:World Scientific Publishing
Series Name:International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series
ISSN:2010-1945
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Conference paper
Language:English
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