The neutron transmission of natFe, 197Au and natW

• Published in: The European physical journal. A, Hadrons and nuclei Vol. 54; no. 5; pp. 1 - 11
• Main Authors: Beyer, Roland, Junghans, Arnd R., Schillebeeckx, Peter, Sirakov, Ivan, Song, Tae-Yung, Bemmerer, Daniel, Capote, Roberto, Ferrari, Anna, Hartmann, Andreas, Hannaske, Ronald, Heyse, Jan, Il Kim, Hyeon, Woon Kim, Jong, Kögler, Toni, Woo Lee, Cheol, Lee, Young-Ouk, Massarczyk, Ralph, Müller, Stefan E., Reinhardt, Tobias P., Röder, Marko, Schmidt, Konrad, Schwengner, Ronald, Szücs, Tamás, Takács, Marcell P., Wagner, Andreas, Wagner, Louis, Yang, Sung-Chul
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Energy measurement; Hadrons; Heavy Ions; Liquid lead; Neutrons; Nuclear cross sections; Nuclear Fusion; Nuclear Physics; Particle and Nuclear Physics; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Regular Article - Experimental Physics; Uncertainty
• ISSN: 1434-6001; 1434-601X
• DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2018-12505-7

. Neutron total cross sections of nat Fe, 197 Au and nat W have been measured at the n ELBE neutron time-of-flight facility in the energy range 0.15-8MeV with an uncertainty due to counting statistics of up to 2% and a total uncertainty due to systematic effects of 1%. The neutrons are produced with the superconducting electron accelerator ELBE using a liquid lead circuit as photo-neutron target. By periodical sample-in-sample-out measurements the transmission of the sample materials has been determined using a low-threshold plastic scintillation detector. The resulting effective total cross sections show good agreement with previously measured data that cover only part of the energy range available at n ELBE. The results have also been compared to evaluated library files and recent calculations based on a dispersive coupled channel optical model potential.