Determination of the 241Pu(n,f) reaction cross sections by surrogate ratio method

In a recent work, direct measurement of neutron induced fission cross section of 241Pu(T1/2 = 14.1 yrs), has been carried out using neutron time of flight. Differences between the reported experimental measurement and evaluation by standard libraries exceeds by 30%, thus it is suggested to carry out further confirmatory measurements on 241Pu(n,f) cross sections. In this paper, we report the use of 238U(6Li,d)242Pu and 232Th(6Li,d)236U transfer reactions as surrogate of 241Pu(n,f) and 235U(n,f) compound nuclear reactions respectively. By employing the surrogate ratio method (SRM) and taking 235U(n,f) as reference, the 241Pu(n,f) cross sections have been determined in the equivalent neutron energy range of 11.0 MeV-16.0 MeV