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Fluctuations in the $^{235}$U(n,f) cross section

Nuclear Theory 2018-08-13 v1

Abstract

We examine the autocorrelation function of the 235^{235}U(n,f) reaction with a view to quantify the presence of intermediate structure in the cross section. Fluctuations due to compound nucleus resonances on the eV energy scale are clearly visible up to 100\sim100 keV neutron energies. Structure on the one-keV energy scale is not present as a systematic feature of the correlation function, although it is present in the data covering the region around 20 keV.

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@article{arxiv.1804.00364,
  title  = {Fluctuations in the $^{235}$U(n,f) cross section},
  author = {G. F. Bertsch and David Brown and E. D. Davis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.00364},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

25 pages and 12 figures. To be submitted to Physical Review C