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 53-I -127 CAD,BRC,+  EVAL-FEB05 G.NOGUERE, E.DUPONT, E.BAUGE     
                      DIST-JAN09                     20090105     
----JEFF-311          MATERIAL 5325                               
-----INCIDENT NEUTRON DATA                                        
------ENDF-6 FORMAT                                               
***************************  JEFF-3.1.1  *************************
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**         Original data taken from:  JEFF-3.1 Updated          **
**         Modification:       Corrections by E. Dupont, CEA    **
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Modification of JEFF-3.1                                          
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 2006-07 E.Dupont (CEA)                                           
                                                                  
         MF2/MT151  set AWRI=AWR for LRU=1 (RRR) and LRU=2 (URR)  
         MF3/MT3    Deleted                                       
         MF3/MT5    Deleted (cross section for (g,gx) reaction)   
         MF3/MT108  Deleted (xs maximum around 1 pico-barn)       
         MF6/all    Normalization of spectra                      
         MF6/MT5    Deleted                                       
         MF6/MT108  Deleted                                       
         MF8/all    MATP set to 0                                 
         MF8/MT108  Deleted                                       
         MF10/all   IZAP added                                    
         MF10/MT108 Deleted                                       
                                                                  
*****************************  JEFF-3.1  *************************
                                                                  
                            New evaluation                        
                                                                  
MAIN AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTIONS                                    
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 G. NOGUERE, CEA-DEN/DER/SPRC (Cadarache, France)                 
                                                                  
+ A. BRUSEGAN, P. SCHILLEBEECKX, JRC-IRMM (Belgium)               
  A. LEPRETRE, F. Gunsing, CEA/DSM-Saclay (France)                
                                                                  
  New measurements and evaluation of the resolved and unresolved  
  resonance ranges up to 57.6 keV.                                
                                                                  
 E. DUPONT, CEA-DEN/DER/SPRC (Cadarache, France)                  
                                                                  
  Continuum modelling, comparison with experimental data,         
  assembly and verification of the file.                          
                                                                  
 E. BAUGE, CEA-DAM/DPTA/SPN (Bruyeres-le-Chatel, France)          
                                                                  
  Semi-microscopic deformed optical model potential and           
  coupled-channels calculations.                                  
                                                                  
+ A. KONING, NRG-Petten (The Netherlands) and                     
  the TALYS development team (NRG-CEA/DAM collaboration)          
                                                                  
  For constant support and permission to use pre-release versions 
  of the TALYS and TEFAL codes.                                   
                                                                  
                                                                  
GENERAL INFORMATION                                               
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  * RESONANCE PARAMETERS UPDATED WITH RESULTS EXTRACTED FROM      
    RECENT EXPERIMENTAL DATA (2001)                               
                                                                  
  * NEW DESCRIPTION OF THE UNRESOLVED ENERGY RANGE UP TO 57.6 KEV 
                                                                  
  * NEW EVALUATION OF THE HIGH ENERGY RANGE UP TO 30 MEV          
                                                                  
                                                                  
THERMAL CROSS SECTIONS AND RESONANCE INTEGRALS                    
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   THERMAL CROSS SECTIONS AND RESONANCE INTEGRALS CALCULATED WITH 
   THE NJOY-99.90 CODE [McF00]:                                   
                                                                  
                 | 2200 m/s values | Resonance Integral           
                 |     (barns)     |      (barns)                 
        ---------+-----------------+--------------------          
         Total   |      8.95       |                              
         Elastic |      3.15       |                              
         Capture |      5.80       |       153.81                 
                                                                  
                                                                  
RESOLVED RESONANCE RANGE (RRR): E < 5 KEV                         
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  * RESOLVED RESONANCE PARAMETERS WERE REPLACED BY REICH-MOORE    
    PARAMETERS EXTRACTED FROM SIMULTANEOUS ANALYSIS OF            
    TRANSMISSION AND CAPTURE TIME OF FLIGHT DATA CARRIED OUT AT   
    THE GELINA FACILITY [Nog04]. RESONANCE SHAPE ANALYSIS WERE    
    PERFORMED WITH THE REFIT CODE [Mox90] UP TO 10 KEV. THE       
    VALIDITY OF THE PRESENT RESULTS WERE THEN VERIFIED WITH THE   
    SAMMY CODE [Lar03]. ORBITAL MOMENTUM OF THE 717 RESONANCES    
    HAS BEEN ASSIGNED ON THE BASIS OF THE SUGGESTION PROVIDED BY  
    THE BAYESIAN APPROACH IMPLEMENTED IN THE ESTIMA CODE [For83]. 
                                                                  
  * S-WAVE AVERAGE PARAMETERS EXTRACTED FROM THE RRR:             
                                                                  
      R' = 5.49 +/- 0.09 fm  =>  R0 infinity = 0.19 +/- 0.01      
     = 100 +/- 22.6 meV                                       
      S0 = (0.72 +/- 0.06)10^-4                                   
      D0 = 12.52 +/- 0.3 eV  =>  a = 17.42 +/- 0.04 1/MeV         
                                                                  
    a STANDS FOR THE FERMION GAS LEVEL DENSITY PARAMETER          
    DETERMINED WITH THE GILBERT AND CAMERON FORMULA [Gil65].      
                                                                  
  * WARNING: RESONANCE PARAMETERS ABOVE 5 KEV ARE GIVEN IN THE    
    PRESENT FILE FOR INFORMATION ONLY. ABOVE THIS NEUTRON ENERGY, 
    MANY WEAK LEVELS WERE NOT IDENTIFIED.                         
                                                                  
                                                                  
UNRESOLVED RESONANCE RANGE (URR): 5 KEV < E < 57.6 KEV            
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  * UNRESOLVED RESONANCE RANGE HAVE BEEN ANALYSED WITH THE        
    GENERALISED HAUSER-FESHBACH FORMALISM IMPLEMENTED IN THE      
    FITACS OPTION OF THE SAMMY CODE. TRANSMISSION AND CAPTURE     
    DATA MEASURED AT THE GELINA FACILITY [Nog04] HAVE BEEN        
    CONVERTED RESPECTIVELY INTO TOTAL AND CAPTURE CROSS SECTIONS  
    USING THE SHELF-SHIELDING AND MULTIPLE SCATTERING CORRECTIONS 
    CALCULATED WITH THE MONTE-CARLO CODE SESH [Fro68]. THE UPPER  
    ENERGY LIMIT OF THE UNRESOLVED RESONANCE RANGE IS SET TO THE  
    FIRST INELASTIC THRESHOLD (57.6 KEV).                         
                                                                  
  * AVERAGE PARAMETERS EXTRACTED FROM THE URR: THE PRESENT VALUES 
    HAVE BEEN OBTAINED TO GET A GOOD AGREEMENT BETWEEN URR DATA   
    AND RESULTS FROM TALYS                                        
                                                                  
    s-wave R0 inftinity = 0.2095                                  
           S0 = 0.697                                             
            = 100.4 meV                                      
           D0 = 12.52 eV                                          
                                                                  
    l-wave R1 inftinity = -0.1293                                 
           S1 = 2.324                                             
            = 110.0 meV                                      
           D1 = 6.48 eV                                           
                                                                  
    THE S-WAVE MEAN LEVEL SPACING COMES FROM THE STATISTICAL      
    ANALYSIS OF THE RRR.THE P-WAVE MEAN LEVEL SPACING IS THEN     
    CALCULATED WITH THE GILBERT AND CAMERON FORMULA [Gil65] USING 
    A SPIN CUT OFF VALUE AS DEFINED IN REF [Her87].               
                                                                  
                                                                  
HIGH ENERGY RANGE: 57.6 keV < En < 30 MeV                         
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 New evaluation based on model calculations using the ECIS-97     
 and TALYS-0.52 [Kon04] codes with a semi-microscopic deformed    
 optical model potential [Bau01] for neutrons and folded OMPs --  
 derived from the default nucleon potentials [Kon03] of TALYS --  
 for other particles (p, d, triton, helion and alpha).            
                                                                  
 Nucleus deformation:   Beta-2 = 0.14                             
                                                                  
 Channels coupled in a vibrational model within the ECIS code are 
 indicated in the following 127I levels scheme,                   
                                                                  
                                                                  
    Coupled    Spin-                                  Energy      
    Channels  parity                                  (keV)       
                                                                  
 11            9/2+ _________________________________ 744.71      
 10   yes     11/2+ _________________________________ 716.50      
                                                                  
                                                                  
                                                                  
  9   yes      9/2+ _________________________________ 650.92      
  8            7/2+ _________________________________ 628.69      
  7            3/2+ _________________________________ 618.31      
                                                                  
                                                                  
                                                                  
                                                                  
  6            3/2+ _________________________________ 473.00      
                                                                  
  5            5/2+ _________________________________ 417.99      
                                                                  
  4            1/2+ _________________________________ 374.99      
                                                                  
                                                                  
                                                                  
  3            3/2+ _________________________________ 295.00      
                                                                  
                                                                  
  2            3/2+ _________________________________ 202.86      
                                                                  
                                                                  
                                                                  
                                                                  
  1   yes      7/2+ _________________________________  57.61      
                                                                  
  0            5/2+ _________________________________   0.00      
                                                                  
                                                                  
                                                                  
 The level density parameter and the spin cut-off factor used     
 in the TALYS compound nucleus statistical models were adjusted   
 to be consistent with the URR average spacing and experimental   
 capture cross-section.                                           
                                                                  
 Average CONT parameters (En~0)                                   
                                                                  
                          |   l=0  |   l=1  |   l=2               
             -------------+--------+--------+--------             
               R'    (fm) |   5.70 |   5.70 |   5.70              
              
(eV) | 12.52 | 6.47 | 4.57 Sl *10**4 | 0.62 | 2.31 | 0.47 (meV) | 121.00 | 121.00 | 121.00 The model parameters were fine-tuned to enforce agreement with experimental data [Exf05]: - Differential cross-sections (n,tot), (n,n), (n,n'), (n,ni), (n,2n), (n,3n), (n,g) - Double-differential elastic scattering cross-sections FILE INFORMATION ================================================================= This file was formated thanks to SAMMY [Lar03] and TALYS [Kon04] formatting capabilities. REFERENCES ==============================----------------------------------- [Bau01] E. Bauge, et al., Phys. Rev. C63, 024607 (2001). [Exf05] Nuclear Reaction Data Centres Network (NRDC, IAEA), OECD NEA Data Bank EXFOR retrieval system (2005), see http://www.nea.fr/html/dbdata/x4/. [For83] E. Fort and J.P. Doat, NEANDC-161 (1983). [Fro68] F.H. Frohner, Report Gulf General Atomic GA-8380 (1968). [Gil65] A. Gilbert and A. Cameron, Can. Jour. Phys. 43(1965)1446. [Her87] M. Herman and G. Reffo, Phys. Rev. C 36(1987)1546. [Kon03] A. Koning, J.-P. Delaroche, Nucl. Phys. A713, 231 (2003). [Kon04] A. Koning, et al., in Int. Conf. on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, Santa Fe, USA, September 2004. [Lar03] N.M. Larson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL/TM-9179/R6 (2003). [McF00] R.E. MacFarlane, NJOY99 - Code system for producing pointwise and multigroup neutron and photon cross sections from ENDF/B Data, RSIC PSR-480 (2000). [Mox90] M.C. Moxon and J.B. Brisland,Technical Report Harwell Laboratory, CBNM/ST/90-131/1 (1990). [Nog04] G. Noguere et al., Int. Conf. on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, Santa Fe, USA (2004) and Sixth EC Conf. on the management and disposal of radioactive waste, EURADWASTE'04, Luxembourg (2004). CONTENTS ==============================-----------------------------------
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