Abstract

Elastic and inelastic differential cross sections for neutron scattering from 56Fe have been measured for several incident energies from 1.30 to 7.96 MeV at the University of Kentucky Accelerator Laboratory. Scattered neutrons were detected using a C6D6 liquid scintillation detector using pulse-shape discrimination and time-of-flight techniques. The deduced cross sections have been compared with previously reported data, predictions from evaluation databases ENDF, JENDL, and JEFF, and theoretical calculations performed using different optical model potentials using the TALYS and EMPIRE nuclear reaction codes. The coupled-channel calculations based on the vibrational and soft-rotor models are found to describe the experimental (n,n0) and (n,n1) cross sections well.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-9-2017

Notes/Citation Information

Published in Physical Review C, v. 95, issue 6, 064605, p. 1-9.

©2017 American Physical Society

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.95.064605

Funding Information

This research was funded in part by the U.S. DOE NNSA-SSAA under Grant No. DE-NA0002931, U.S. DOE NEUP under Grant No. NU-12-KY-UK-0201-05, U.S. NSF under Grant No. PHY-1305801, and the Donald A. Cowan Physics Institute at UD.

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