Abstract
Elastic and inelastic neutron differential cross sections are measured at the University of Kentucky Accelerator Laboratory (www.pa.uky.edu/accelerator/) at incident energies in the fast neutron region. The laboratorys facilities and instrumentation will be described and our measurement and analysis procedures outlined. Many corrections are required for neutron scattering experiments and the analysis utilizes information from many other cross section data sets and model calculations. Exploring and understanding the limitations of the foundational information and procedures are important for controlling the accuracy of the cross section results. We are examining the limitations in neutron detection efficiency, the normalization of (n,n′γ) cross sections,background reduction, spectrum stripping techniques, and attenuation and multiple scattering corrections. The resulting differential cross sections provide information on the compound elastic and coupled channels reaction mechanisms important for advanced reactor designs
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-28-2015
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159302014
Funding Information
Research at the University of Kentucky Accelerator Laboratory is supported by a contract from the U.S. Department of Energy-NEUP, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the USNA James Kinnear Fellowship, and the Cowan Physics Fund at the University of Dallas.
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This article was a part of a conference, CGS15-Capture Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics in Dresden, Germany, August 25-29, 2014. For more proceedings from this conference, please visit: http://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/abs/2015/12/contents/contents.html
Repository Citation
Vanhoy, J. R.; Hicks, S. F.; Combs, B. C.; Crider, B. P.; French, A. J.; Garza, E. A.; Henderson, S. L.; Howard, T. J.; Liu, S. H.; Nigam, S.; Pecha, R. L.; Peters, E. E.; Prados-Estévez, Francisco M.; McEllistrem, Marcus T.; Rice, B. J.; Ross, T. J.; Santonil, Z. C.; Sidwell, L. C.; Steves, J. L.; and Yates, Steven W., "The Neutron Time-of-Flight Cross Section Program at the University of Kentucky - Adventures in Analysis II" (2015). Chemistry Faculty Publications. 56.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/chemistry_facpub/56
Notes/Citation Information
Published in EPJ Web of Conferences, v. 93, article 02014, p. 1-4.
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