Published February 1986 | Version v1
Journal article

Pre-equilibrium processes in the reaction of neutrons on 59Co and 93Nb

  • 1. Oxford Univ. (UK). Nuclear Physics Lab.

Description

The statistical multistep compound (SMC) theory of Feshbach, Kerman and Koonin is used to analyse the energy and angular distributions of 14 MeV neutrons inelastically scattered by 59Co and 93Nb. An acceptable fit is obtained to the whole energy spectrum provided the contributions from the (n,2n) and (n,pn) reactions, also calculated with the SMC formalism, are added at low energies. The theory also accounts well for the (n,p) cross sections. The sensitivity of the results to the level density parameters is investigated. (author)

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Journal Title
J. Phys., G (London). Nucl. Phys.
Journal Volume
12
Journal Issue
2
Series
J. Phys., G (London). Nucl. Phys.
Journal Page Range
93-103
ISSN
0305-4616
CODEN
JPHGB