Direct inelastic nucleon scattering to higher excited final states

The inelastic scattering of 14 MeV neutrons from 40Ca and 56Fe was investigated. The microscopic approach to inelastic nucleon scattering has been used mainly with an effective two-body interaction of Gaussian shape and a range of 1.7 fm. Excitations up to about the nucleon binding energy were treated. In order to get absolute differential cross sections the strength of the effective excitations. The cross section obtained for each final state was transformed to a continuous spectrum according to the resolution of the time-of-flight spectrometer using a Gaussian distribution function. The calculated spectra are also compared with results from the Hybrid model for precompound decay with a transition rate from the optical model