Study of the angular energy distribution of secondary gamma radiation resulting from interactions of reactor neutrons with iron and lead barriers

The present work deals with the experimental study of the angular energy distributions of the secondary gamma-radiation resulting from interaction of reactor neutrons with iron and lead barriers of infinite diameters and of 5 cm thickness. The measurements were carried out both with the bare neutron beam, emitted from the ET-RR-1 reactor, and with the beam being transmitted through a B4C filter. The pulse height distributions of gamma-rays, emitted from the used barriers, were measured with a gamma-ray spectrometer with a single stilbene scintillator. The experimental results were compared with theoretical calculations carried out using a multigroup coupled neutron gamma cross-sections and a discrete ordinates transport theory code. The comparison shows a reasonable agreement between both experimental results and theoretical calculations. (author)