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 18-Ar- 38 NEA        RCOM-JUN83 SCIENTIFIC CO-ORDINATION GROUP   
                      DIST-JAN09                     20090105     
----JEFF-311          MATERIAL 1831                               
-----INCIDENT NEUTRON DATA                                        
------ENDF-6 FORMAT                                               
***************************  JEFF-3.1.1  *************************
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**         Original data taken from:  JEFF-3.1                  **
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*****************************  JEFF-3.1  *************************
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**         Original data taken from:  JEFF-3.0                  **
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*****************************  JEFF-3.0  *************************
                                                                  
   Skeleton MF-5 MT-22,28 added                                   
                                                                  
   DATA TAKEN FROM   :-   JEF-2.2 (DIST-JAN92)                    
                                                                  
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*   JEF-2                                                        *
*     DATA WERE TAKEN FROM RCN-2 EVALUATION.                     *
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*   23-AUG-84: COMMENT ADDED. Q-VALUES IN MF=3,MT=91             *
*                  AND IN MF=5,MT=16 CORRECTED.                  *
*    3-FEB-85: DATA WERE EXTENDED DOWN TO 1.0E-5 EV               
*              AFTER CONSULTAION WITH H.GRUPPELAAR.               
*   11-FEB-85: Q-VALUES AND THRESHOLD ENERGIES FOR MT=22, 28,     
*              107, 108 CORRECTED                                 
               Q-VALUE FOR MT=102 CORRECTED                       
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                        ARGON-38                                  
                                                                  
 AUTOMATICALLY TRANSLATED INTO ENDF/B FORMAT FROM KEDAK SOURCE BY 
                                                                  
                           K T O E - 3                            
                                                                  
ORIGINAL COMMENT IS:                                              
                                                                  
 ECN-3 EVAL. H.GRUPPELAAR AND H.A.J.VAN DER KAMP 18/02/82         
 MINIMUM ENERGY                        .00100    EV               
 MIN EN OF STATISTICAL MODEL           .30000   MEV               
 ENERGY OF FIRST EXCITED STATE        2.16800   MEV               
 CONTINUOUS STAT MODEL ABOVE          5.97480   MEV               
 HIGH ENERGY MODEL ABOVE             11.00000   MEV               
 MAXIMUM ENERGY                      20.00000   MEV               
 LEVEL DENSITY PARAMETER  AR038       7.15000 1/MEV               
 LEVEL DENSITY PARAMETER  AR037       6.46000 1/MEV               
  *****CROSS SECTIONS FOR NUCLIDES IN COVER GAS OF LMFBR**********
  *****ARGON-38***************************************************
  RESOLVED RESONANCE REGION                                       
      THERMAL CAPTURE CROSS SECTION = 0.8+-0.2 BARN (MU73)        
      RESONANCE INTEGRAL: NO MEASURED VALUE KNOWN                 
      RESOLVED RESONANCE PARAMETERS: ONLY TWO HYPOTHETICAL        
      RESONANCES, ONE NEGATIVE AT -4960 EV, ONE POSITIVE AT       
      135 KEV, FITTED TO THE VALUE OF THE THERMAL CAPTURE         
      CROSS SECTION.                                              
  STRENGTH FUNCTION REGION UP TO 1.2 MEV.                         
      CAPTURE CROSS SECTIONS WITH CODE FISPRO-ECN                 
      OTHER CROSS SECTIONS WITH CODE SASSI-ECN                    
      S-WAVE STRENGTH FUNCTION=0.91, P-WAVE STRENGTH FUNCTION     
      =0.33, THE SAME VALUES AS USED FOR ARGON-40                 
      OTHER STRENGTH FUNCTIONS FROM OPTICAL MODEL                 
      DOBS=140 KEV ,FROM BECKERMANN (BE77)                        
      S-WAVE CAPTURE WIDTH=0.357 EV,                              
      P-WAVE CAPTURE WIDTH=0.638 EV, CALCULATED WITH CERBERO      
 HIGH ENERGY REGION ABOVE 1.2 MEV.                                
      ALL CROSS SECTIONS WITH CODE SASSI-ECN                      
      OPTICAL MODEL PARAMETERS FROM WIEDLING ET AL.(WI76)         
      LEVEL SCHEME OF TARGET NUCLEUS FROM ENDT ET AL.(EN78)       
      SQUARED SPIN CUTOFF PARAMETER=4.65 FROM EXPERIMENTAL SPIN   
      DISTRIBUTION                                                
      CHARGED PARTICLE EMISSION CROSS SECTION FROM CERBERO,ERINNI 
      AND THRES-2 RENORMALIZED AT 14.5 MEV (QA78) WHERE POSSIBLE. 
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