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 94-Pu-242 ENEA,IJS   EVAL-OCT98 A.VENTURA, S.MASETTI, A.TRKOV    
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  05-01 NEA/OECD (Rugama) 8 delayed neutron groups                
Jefdoc-976(Spriggs,Campbel and Piksaikin,Prg Nucl Eng 41,223(2002)
                                                                  
                                                                  
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   DATA TAKEN FROM   :-   JENDL-3.2 (DIST-SEP89)                  
                MODIFICATIONS BY A. Ventura, S.Masetti, A.Trkov   
                Fission energy from ENDF/B-VI                     
                                                                  
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HISTORY                                                           
 THE DATA IN THE PRESENT FILE ARE EVALUATED BY:                   
  A.VENTURA, S.MASETTI ENEA NUCLEAR DATA CENTRE, BOLOGNA, ITALY   
  A.TRKOV              JOZEF STEFAN INSTITUTE, LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA
                                                                  
 THE EVALUATION IS BASED ON JENDL-3.2, WITH CHANGES IN THE        
 FOLLOWING SECTIONS:                                              
 MF=1 MT=456  Number of propmt neutrons emitted by fission        
                                                                  
 A. Nouri (Data Bank) June 1999                                   
              use the same representation as for MT=452           
              (ENDF-6 recommendation): convert LNU=1              
              (polynomial (linear) representation) used in        
              JENDL-32 to tabular representation (LNU=2).         
              Modification of MT=1 MT=452 for the two first       
              energies to be the sum of MT=455 and 456            
 MF=2 MT=151 ------- RESOLVED RESONANCE REGION UP TO 5.7 KEV      
 MF=3 MT=16 -------- (N,2N)                                       
 MF=3 MT=17 -------- (N,3N)                                       
 MF=3 MT=18 -------- (N,FISSION)                                  
 MF=3 MT=51-70 ----- (N,N' DISCRETE LEVELS)                       
 MF=3 MT=91 -------- (N,N' CONTINUUM)                             
                                                                  
 MF=12 -------------  PHOTON PRODUCTION MULTIPLICITIES            
 MF=15 -------------  CONTINUOUS PHOTON ENERGY SPECTRA            
                                                                  
 A COMPLETE CHECK OF ALL REACTION CHANNELS IN THE ENERGY RANGE    
 FROM 40 KEV UP TO 20 MEV HAS BEEN MADE AS FOLLOWS:               
                                                                  
 MF=3                                                             
 MT=1,2                                                           
 TOTAL AND REACTION CROSS SECTION, AS WELL AS DIRECT CONTRIBUTIONS
 TO THE EXCITATION OF THE 0+, 2+, 4+, 6+, LEVELS OF THE GROUND    
 STATE BAND, HAVE BEEN CALCULATED IN COUPLED CHANNELS             
 APPROXIMATION BY MEANS OF THE DEFORMED OPTICAL MODEL PARAMETRIZED
 BY G. VLADUCA ET AL. (REF-A). THE RESULTING TOTAL CROSS SECTION  
 IS IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH EXPERIMENTAL DATA AND JENDL-3.2        
 EVALUATION. THE ORIGINAL DATA ARE NOT CHANGED. THE ELASTIC CROSS 
 SECTION IS ADJUSTED FOR CONSISTENCY BETWEEN THE TOTAL AND THE    
 REVISED PARTIAL CROSS SECTIONS                                   
                                                                  
 MF=3                                                             
 MT=18                                                            
 THE FISSION CROSS SECTION (INCLUDING FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD     
 CHANCE CONTRIBUTIONS) HAS BEEN CALCULATED WITH THE FISSION       
 BARRIER PARAMETERS GIVEN IN (REF-A) AND CONSTANT TEMPERATURE     
 FORMULA FOR THE LEVEL DENSITIES AT THE SADDLE POINTS, WITH       
 PARAMETERS ADJUSTED ON THE EXPERIMENTAL FISSION DATA.            
 THE RESULTING CROSS SECTION IS IN SATISFACTORY AGREEMENT WITH    
 EXPERIMENTS IN THE FISSION CONTINUUM, AND HAS BEEN USED TO       
 COMPUTE FISSION COMPETITION WITH N,XN CHANNELS (X=1,2,3).        
 IN THE FILE, THE EVALUATED CROSS SECTION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY    
 A BEST FIT TO THE EXPERIMENTAL FISSION CROSS SECTION             
 IN THE ENERGY RANGE FROM 200 KEV UP TO 20 MEV:                   
 IN THE 200 KEV - 9 MEV RANGE, THE REFERENCE DATA ARE             
 THOSE BY WEIGMANN ET AL. (REF-B); FROM 9 MEV TO 20 MEV,          
 THE DATA BY BEHRENS ET AL. (REF-C) HAVE BEEN NORMALIZED TO       
 WEIGMANN ET AL. AT 9 MEV. BELOW 200 KEV THE JENDL-3.2            
 EVALUATION HAS BEEN MAINTAINED.                                  
                                                                  
 MF=3                                                             
 MT=16,17                                                         
 THE (N,2N) AND (N,3N) CROSS SECTIONS HAVE BEEN CALCULATED        
 CONSISTENTLY WITH THE FISSION COMPETITION, TAKING INTO           
 ACCOUNT COMPOUND NUCLEUS AND PREEQUILIBRIUM CONTRIBUTIONS.       
 IN THE COMPOUND NUCLEUS CALCULATIONS, THE LEVEL DENSITIES        
 OF THE NEUTRON CHANNELS ARE GIVEN BY THE COMPOSITE GILBERT-      
 CAMERON FORMULA, WITH PARAMETERS ADJUSTED ON THE CUMULATIVE      
 NUMBER OF DISCRETE LEVELS AND THE AVERAGE SPACING OF S-WAVE      
 NEUTRON RESONANCES; THE PREEQUILIBRIUM CALCULATIONS HAVE BEEN    
 PERFORMED WITH A STANDARD EXCITON MODEL WITH EXCITON LEVEL       
 DENSITIES GIVEN BY WILLIAMS FORMULA WITH PARAMETERS FROM         
 SYSTEMATICS.                                                     
                                                                  
 MF=3                                                             
 MT=51-70,91                                                      
 THE INELASTIC CROSS SECTIONS FOR EXCITATION OF 20 DISCRETE       
 LEVELS AND THE CONTINUUM HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM MASLOV ET AL.      
 (REF-D). DIRECT ELASTIC AND DIRECT INELASTIC FOR MT= 51, 52,     
 53 AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENTS FROM COUPLED CHANNEL    
 CALCULATIONS. THREE LEVELS OF ROTATIONAL GROUND STATE BAND       
 ARE COUPLED.THE ADOPTED LEVEL SCHEME IS TAKEN FROM NUCLEAR       
 DATA SHEETS.                                                     
                                                                  
 MF=12,15                                                         
 MT=16,17,91,102                                                  
 GAMMA RAY MULTIPLICITIES AND SPECTRA FOR INELASTIC, CAPTURE,     
 (N,2N) AND (N,3N) CHANNELS HAVE BEEN CALCULATED BY MEANS OF      
 THE PENELOPE CODE (REF-E).                                       
 AFTER THE PROBABILITY FOR COMPOUND NUCLEUS FORMATION HAS BEEN    
 COMPUTED FOR ALL POSSIBLE J'S AND PARITIES, THE CODE DETERMINES  
 THE GAMMA-RAY DECAY PROBABILITIES IN J AND PARITY FOR EACH STEP  
 OF EACH GAMMA GAMMA-RAY CASCADE STORY. AFTER SUMMATION OVER ALL  
 J'S AND PARITIES, AND CONSIDERING THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SELECTION  
 RULES, ALL SINGLE STEP CONTRIBUTIONS ARE LUMPED TOGETHER INTO    
 ENERGY BINS ACCORDING TO THE ENERGIES OF EMITTED GAMMA RAYS.     
 IN THE CALCULATION OF GAMMA-RAY CASCADES IT IS ASSUMED THAT      
 ONLY E1 TRANSITIONS ARE POSSIBLE BETWEEN CONTINUUM LEVELS, AND   
 ALSO FOR TRANSITIONS FROM CONTINUUM TO DISCRETE LEVELS.          
 FOR THE TRANSITIONS BETWEEN DISCRETE LEVELS, EXPERIMENTAL        
 GAMMA-RAY DECAY  SCHEMES AND BRANCHING RATIOS HAVE BEEN USED.    
                                                                  
 REFERENCES:                                                      
 A) G. VLADUCA, M. SIN AND A. TUDORA, REPORT NEA/SEN/NSC/WPPR(96)5
 B) H. WEIGMANN ET AL., NUCL.PHYS. A438,333(1985)                 
 C) J.W. BEHRENS ET AL.,NUCL.SC.ENG.66,433(1978)                  
 D) V.M. MASLOV ET AL., REPORT INDC(BLR)-010(1997)                
 E) G. REFFO AND F. FABBRI, PENELOPE CODE (UNPUBLISHED)           
                                                                  
 THE DESCRIPTION OF THE ORIGINAL JENDL-3.2 FILE FOLLOWS           
 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***  
87-05 EVALUATION WAS MADE BY                                      
        T.MURATA (NAIG): CROSS SECTIONS ABOVE RESONANCE REGION AND
                    OTHER QUANTITIES,                             
        M.KAWAI  (NAIG): RESONANCE PARAMETERS.                    
89-02 FP YIELDS WERE ADDED.                                       
       COMPILATION WAS MADE BY T. NAKAGAWA (JAERI).               
94-06 JENDL-3.2.                                                  
       NU-P, NU-D AND NU-TOTAL WERE MODIFIED.                     
      COMPILED BY T.NAKAGAWA (NDC/JAERI)                          
                                                                  
     *****   MODIFIED PARTS FOR JENDL-3.2   ********************  
      (1,452), (1,455), (1,456)                                   
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MF=1 GENERAL INFORMATION                                          
  MT=451 COMMENT AND DICTIONARY                                   
  MT=452 NUMBER OF NEUTRONS PER FISSION                           
       SUM OF NU-P NAD NU-D.                                      
  MT=455 DELAYED NEUTRONS PER FISSION                             
       BASED ON THE EXPERIMENTAL DATA BY EVANS ET AL./1/, AND     
       SYSTEMATICS BY TUTTLE/2/, BENEDETTI ET AL./3/ AND WALDO ET 
       AL./4/  DECAY CONSTANTS WERE EVALUATED BY BRADY AND        
       ENGLAND/5/.                                                
  MT=456 PROMPT NEUTRONS PER FISSION                              
       BASED ON SYSTEMATICS BY MANERO AND KONSHIN/6/, AND BY      
       HOWERTON/7/.                                               
                                                                  
MF=2 RESONANCE PARAMETERS                                         
  MT=151 RESONANCE PARAMETERS                                     
  RESOLVED RESONANCE PARAMETERS FOR MLBW ( 1.0E-5 EV TO 1.15 KEV) 
      EVALUATION FOR JENDL-2 WAS MODIFIED ON THE BASIS OF FISSION 
      CROSS SECTION MEASUREMENTS BY WEIGMANN ET AL. /8/           
        RES. ENERGIES         = BNL 325 (3RD) /9/                 
        NEUTRON AND CAPTURE WIDTHS = POORTMANS ET AL. /10/,       
                                AUCHAMPAUGH ET AL./11/            
        FISSION WIDTHS        = WEIGMANN ET AL. /8/               
        R                     = 9.9 FM                            
        AVERAGE CAPTURE WIDTH = 0.0242 EV                         
      TWO NEGATIVE RESONANCES WERE ADDED TO REPRODUCE 2200-M/S    
      CROSS SECTIONS RECOMMENDED BY MUGHABGHAB /12/               
  UNRESOLVED RESONANCE PARAMETERS ( 1.15 TO 40 KEV)               
      PARAMETERS WERE DETERMINED TO REPRODUCE CROSS SECTIONS      
      EVALUATED AS DESCRIBED BELOW.                               
                                                                  
    CALCULATED 2200-M/S CROSS SECTIONS AND RESONANCE INTEGRALS    
                      2200-M/S(B)       RES. INTEG.(B)            
      TOTAL           27.11                ----                   
      ELASTIC          8.32                ----                   
      FISSION          0.00256             5.58                   
      CAPTURE         18.79             1130                      
                                                                  
MF=3 NEUTRON CROSS SECTIONS                                       
      BELOW 40 KEV, REPRESENTED WITH RESONANCE PARAMETERS.        
                                                                  
  MT=1 SIG-TOT                                                    
      BELOW 6 KEV : EXPERIMENTAL DATA OF YOUNG AND REEDER /13/    
        WERE AVERAGED OVER SOME KEV ENERGY INTERVAL.              
      ABOVE 6 KEV : SPLINE FITTING TO EXPERIMENTAL DATA OF        
        KAEPPELER ET AL. /14/ AND MOORE ET AL. /15/               
                                                                  
  MT=2 SIG-EL                                                     
      OBTAINED BY SUBTRACTING OTHER CROSS SECTIONS FROM TOTAL.    
                                                                  
  MT=4 SIG-INEL                                                   
      SUM OF PARTIAL INELASTIC CROSS SECTIONS                     
                                                                  
  MT=51-91   PARTIAL SIG-INEL                                     
      BELOW 3 MEV : THE RESULTS OF STATISTICAL AND COUPLED CHANNEL
        CALCULATION OF LAGRANGE ET AL./16/ WERE ADOPTED.          
      ABOVE 3 MEV : EXTRAPOLATION OF THE VALUES WAS MADE BASED    
        ON DWBA CALCULATION.                                      
                                                                  
          LEVEL SCHEME                                            
             NO.      ENERGY(MEV)        SPIN-PARITY              
             G.S.       0.0                  0 +                  
               1        0.04285              2 +                  
               2        0.141685             4 +                  
               3        0.294314             6 +                  
               4        0.4976               8 +                  
               5        0.59736              1 -                  
               6        0.64889              3 -                  
               7        0.74232              5 -                  
               8        0.8607               0 +                  
               9        0.90032              2 +                  
              10        0.93807              1 -                  
              11        0.95887              2 -                  
              12        0.9924               4 +                  
              13        1.0018               3 -                  
              14        1.0306               3 +                  
              15        1.0375               4 -                  
              16        1.0764               4 +                  
              17        1.0895               0 +                  
              18        1.1155               5 -                  
              19        1.1370               2 +                  
              20        1.1615               6 -                  
              21        1.1778               3 +                  
              22        1.223                2 +                  
              23        1.2325               4 +                  
              24        1.2408               1 -                  
              25        1.2621               3 +                  
              26        1.2820               3 -                  
              27        1.30873              5 -                  
              28        1.41079              0 +                  
      LEVELS ABOVE 1.41079 MEV WERE ASSUMED TO BE CONTINUUM.      
                                                                  
MT=16,17,37 SIGMAS OF (N,2N), (N,3N) AND (N,4N)                   
      GIVEN BY MULTIPLICATION OF NEUTRON EMISSION CROSS SECTION   
      AND BRANCHING RATIO TO EACH REACTION.  THE NEUTRON EMISSION 
      CROSS SECTION WAS OBTAINED BY SUBTRACTING FISSION AND       
      CAPTURE CROSS SECTIONS FROM REACTION CROSS SECTION          
      CALCULATED WITH SPHERICAL OPTICAL MODEL.  THE BRANCHING     
      RATIO WAS CALCULATED WITH THE FORMALISM GIVEN BY SEGEV ET   
      AL./17/                                                     
                                                                  
MT=18 SIG-FISS                                                    
      BELOW 100 KEV : SHAPE OF SIG-FISS DETERMINED ON THE FISSION 
        AREA DATA OF AUCHAMPAUGH ET AL./18/  THEN NORMALIZED TO   
        THE VALUE OF HIGHER ENERGY REGION.                        
      ABOVE 100 KEV : FISSON RATIO TO U-235 WAS DETERMINED ON THE 
        EXPERIMENTAL DATA OF BEHRENS ET AL./19/ AND MULTIPLIED BY 
        U-235 FISSION CROSS SECTION /20/.                         
                                                                  
MT=102 SIG-CAP                                                    
    ENERGY REGION OF 6 KEV TO 210 KEV : DETERMINED ON THE BASIS OF
      EXPERIMENTAL DATA OF HOCHENBURY ET AL./21/ AND WISSHAK AND  
      KAEPPELER /22/.                                             
    OTHER ENERGY REGION : STATISTICAL CALCULATION RESULT WITH     
      CASTHY CODE /23/ WAS NORMALIZED TO SIG-CAP IN THE REGION OF 
      6 TO 210 KEV. DIRECT AND COLLECTIVE CAPTURE PROCESSES WERE  
      INCLUDED IN HIGH ENERGY REGION USING THE VALUE OF U-238     
      GIVEN BY KITAZAWA ET AL./24/                                
                                                                  
  ** PARAMETERS FOR THE CASTHY CODE CALCULATION                   
       SPHERICAL OPTICAL POTENTIAL PARAMETERS                     
          V=40. 1-0.05EN , WS=6.5+0.15EN , VSO=7.0  (MEV)         
          R=1.32     ,   RS=1.38   ,   RSO=1.32      (FM)         
          A=AS=ASO=0.47                              (FM)         
       LEVEL DENSITY PARAMETERS WERE DETERMINED TO REPRODUCE THE  
       RESONANCE LEVEL SPACINGS AND LEVEL SCHEME SUM STAIRCASES.  
                                                                  
  MT=251 MU-L                                                     
       ASSUMED TO BE THE SAME AS THAT OF PU-240.                  
                                                                  
MF=4 ANGULAR DISTRIBUTIONS                                        
       THE SAME DISTRIBUTIONS AS PU-240 WERE ASSUMED, WHICH WERE  
       DETERMINED AS FOLLOWS.                                     
                                                                  
  MT=2 DSIG-EL                                                    
       SPHERICAL OPTICAL MODEL CALCULATION                        
                                                                  
  MT=51 TO 91  DSIG-INEL                                          
       FOR THE 1ST AND 2ND LEVELS THE RESULTS OF CALCULATION OF   
       LAGRANGE ET AL./16/ ARE AVAILABLE AND THEIR RESULTS WERE   
       ADOPTED.  FOR OTHER LEVELS, STATISTICAL PLUS DWBA CALCU-   
       LATIONS WERE MADE.                                         
                                                                  
MF=5 ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS OF SECONDARY NEUTRONS                   
  MT=16,17 AND 91                                                 
       DISTRIBUTIONS WERE CALCULATED WITH PEGASUS/25/             
  MT=37                                                           
       EVAPORATION SPECTRUM WAS TAKEN FROM JENDL-2                
  MT=18                                                           
       TAKEN FROM JENDL-2. TEMPERATURE WAS ESTIMATED FROM Z**2/A  
       SYSTEMATICS BY SMITH ET AL. /26/                           
                                                                  
REFERENCES                                                        
 1) EVANS,A.E. ET AL.: NUCL. SCI. ENG., 50, 80 (1973).            
 2) TUTTLE,R.J.: INDC(NDS)-107/G+SPECIAL, P.29 (1979),            
 3) BENEDETTI,G. ET AL.: NUCL. SCI. ENG., 80, 379 (1982).         
 4) WALDO,R. ET AL.: PHYS. REV., C23, 1113 (1981).                
 5) BRADY,M.C. AND ENGLAND,T.R.: NUCL. SCI. ENG., 103, 129 (1989).
 6) MANERO,F. AND KONSHIN,V.A.:  AT. ENERGY REV.,10, 637 (1972).  
 7) HOWERTON,R.J.: NUCL. SCI. ENG., 62, 438 (1977).               
 8) WEIGMANN,H., WARTENA,J.A. AND BURKHOLZ,C. : NUCL. PHYS.,      
    A438, 333 (1985).                                             
 9) MUGHABGHAB,S.F. AND GARBER,D.I. : BNL 325, 3RD ED., VOL. 1    
    (1973)                                                        
10) POORTMANS,F. ET AL. : NUCL. PHYS., A207, 342 (1973).          
11) AUCHMPAUGH,G.F. AND BOWMAN,C.D. : PHYS. REV., C7, 2085 (1973).
12) MUGHABGHAB,S.F. : "NEUTRON CROSS SECTIONS", VOL. 1, PART B,   
    ACADEMIC PRESS (1984).                                        
13) YOUNG,T.E. AND REEDER,S.D. : NUCL. SCI. ENG., 40, 389 (1970). 
14) KAEPPELER,F. ET AL. : PROC. OF MEETING ON NUCLEAR DATA OF     
    HIGHER PU AND AM ISOTOPEPS FOR REACTOR APPLICATION, P.49      
    (1978, BNL).                                                  
15) MOORE,M.S. ET AL. : PROC. OF NUCLEAR CROSS SECTIONS FOR       
    TECHNOLOGY, P.703 (1979, KNOXVILLE).                          
16) LAGRANGE,CH. AND JARY,J. : NEANDC(E) 198"L" (1978).           
17) SEGEV,M. ET AL. : ANNALS OF NUCL. ENERGY, 5, 239 (1978).      
18) AUCHAMPAUGH,G.F. ET AL. : NUCL. PHYS., A171, 31 (1971).       
19) BEHRENS,J.W. ET AL. : NUCL. SCI. ENG., 66, 433 (1978).        
20) MATSUNOBU,H. ET AL. : EVALUATION FOR JENDL-3 (1987).          
21) HOCKENBURY,R.W. ET AL. : NBS SPECIAL PUBLICATION 425, VOL. 2, 
    P.584 (1975).                                                 
22) WISSHAK,K. AND KAEPPELER,F. : NUCL. SCI. ENG., 66, 363 (1978),
                                  NUCL. SCI. ENG., 69, 39 (1979). 
23) IGARASI,S. AND FUKAHORI,T.: JAERI 1321 (1991).                
24) KITAZAWA,H. ET AL. : NUCL. PHYS., A307, 1 (1978).             
25) IIJIMA,S. ET AL. : JAERI-M 87-025, P.337 (1987).              
26) SMITH,A.B. ET AL.: ANL/NDM-50 (1979).                         
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