Systematic Measurement of keV-Neutron Capture Cross Sections and Capture Gamma-Ray Spectra of Zr Isotopes

The capture cross sections of 92Zr were measured in the incident neutron energy region from 15 to 90 keV and at 550 keV. A neutron time-of-flight method was adopted with a ns-pulsed neutron source by the 7Li(p,n)7Be reaction and with a large anti-Compton NaI(Tl) spectrometer. A pulse-height weighting technique was applied to observed capture gamma-ray pulse-height spectra to derive capture yields. Using the standard capture cross sections of 197Au in ENDF/B-VI, the capture cross sections of 92Zr were obtained with the errors from 7% to 11%. The present results were compared with previous measurements and the evaluations of JENDL-3.3 and ENDF/B-VI. The capture gamma-ray spectra of 92Zr were derived by unfolding observed capture gamma-ray pulse-height spectra