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 96-Cm-242 NEA        RCOM-JUN82 E.MENAPACE                       
                      DIST-JAN09                     20090105     
----JEFF-311          MATERIAL 9631                               
-----INCIDENT NEUTRON DATA                                        
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***************************  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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  05-01 NEA/OECD (Rugama) 8 delayed neutron groups                
  Jefdoc-976 (Wilson and England, Prog Nucl Eng 41,71(2002)       
                                                                  
                                                                  
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   DATA TAKEN FROM   :-   JEF-2.2   (DIST-JAN92)                  
                          JENDL-3.2 (DIST-SEP89)                  
                          ENDF/B-VI (DIST-FEB90)                  
    Basically, JENDL-3.2 data were adopted below 40 keV (limit    
    of the UNRR) and JEF-2.2 adopted at higher energies.          
    Total, delayed and prompt neutron data multiplicities,        
    and photon production data were taken from ENDF/B-VI          
    Components of the energy released by fission (MT=458)         
    updated by O. Serot et al. (JEF/DOC-887).                     
    Fission Q updated consistently.                               
                                                                  
    Details on the compilation are as follows:                    
                                                                  
    Data originating from JENDL-3.2 solely are those of the       
    following MF/MTs: 1/452, 1/455, 1/456, 2/151, 3/251, 4/2      
                                                                  
    The following MF/MTs are combinations of JENDL-3.2            
    (up to 40 keV) and JEF-2.2                                    
    3/1, 3/2, 3/18, 3/102                                         
                                                                  
    All the threshold reactions are from JEF-2.2, i.e             
    3/4, 3/16, 3/17, 3/20, 3/51 through 3/62, 3/91.               
                                                                  
    The angular distributions of MT=2 was taken from              
    JENDL-3.2. JEF-2.2 angular distributions were adopted         
    for MF=51, 52 and 53. For other reactions the distribution    
    was assumed isotropic in both evaluations.                    
                                                                  
    The secondary energy distributions were taken from JEF-2.2    
    for the following reactions: MT=16,18.    Fission             
    spectrum in JEF-2.2 is energy dependent while it isn't in     
    JENDL-3.2.                                                    
    Partial fissions deleted due to inconsistency with the total  
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HISTORY of the two evaluations                                    
---------- JENDL-3.2   ----------                                 
81-03 EVALUATION FOR JENDL-2 WAS MADE BY T.NAKAGAWA AND S.IGARASI 
      (JAERI) /1/.                                                
89-03 RE-EVALUATION FOR JENDL-3 WAS MADE BY T.NAKAGAWA (JAERI)/2/.
---------- JEF-2.2   ----------                                   
    19-AUG-84: FISSION Q-VALUES AND ENERGY LIMITS IN MF=5         
               CORRECTED.                                         
    28-DEC-84: ENERGY REGIONS EXTENDED TO 20 MEV.                 
                                                                  
 1) Q-VALUES AND THRESHOLD ENERGIES WERE MODIFIED.                
 2) THE TOTAL AND TOTAL INELASTIC SCATTERING CROSS SECTIONS WERE  
    RE-CALCULATED FROM PARTIAL CROSS SECTIONS.                    
                                                                  
           ENEA       EVAL-MAR82      CNEN-CDC-BOLOGNA            
                                                                  
                                                                  
    CURIUM-242           NEUTRON CROSS SECTION EVALUATION         
 EVALUATION IS DESCRIBED IN THE REPORT  INDC(ITY)-7    (1982)     
                                                                  
Relevent description extracted from the two evaluations           
MF=1  GENERAL INFORMATION                                         
  MT=451  DESCRIPTIVE DATA                                        
  MT=452 NUBAR   THERMAL VALUE COMPUTED FROM SEMI-EMPIRICAL WORK  
     OF GORDEEVA AND SMIRENKIN(REF.1) AS REVISED BY MANERO AND    
     KONSHIN(REF.2).  ENERGY DEPENDENCE BASED ON HOWERTON (REF. 3)
  MT=455 DEL. NUBAR, M.C.BRADY AND T.R.ENGLAND, NSE 103,129(1989) 
  MT=458 ENERGY OF FISSION. SYSTEMATICS OF SHER                   
MF=2  RESONANCE PARAMETERS                                        
  MT=151  RESONANCE PARAMETERS                                    
     RESOLVED RESONANCE REGION : 1.0E-5 EV TO 275 EV.             
          RESONANCE ENERGIES = ALTAMONOV ET AL. /5/,              
          NEUTRON WIDTHS     = ALTAMONOV ET AL. /5/,              
          RADIATIVE WIDTHS   = 0.040 EV,                          
          FISSION WIDTHS     = ALAM ET AL. /6/ FOR THE LOW-LYING 4
                        LEVELS, AND THE AVERAGE VALUE OF 0.004 EV 
                        FOR OTHER LEVELS.                         
          SCATTERING RADIUS  = 9.38 FM.                           
        A NEGATIVE RESONANCE WAS ADDED AT -3.45 EV, AND ITS       
        PARAMETERS WERE ADJUSTED SO AS TO REPRODUCE WELL THE      
        THERMAL CROSS SECTIONS/7/.  BACKGROUND CROSS SECTION WAS  
        GIVEN TO THE FISSION CROSS SECTION.                       
     UNRESOLVED RESONANCE PARAMETERS : 275 EV - 40 KEV            
        PARAMETERS WERE DETERMINED WITH A FITTING CODE ASREP /8/  
        SO AS TO REPRODUCE THE FISSION CROSS SECTION MEASURED BY  
        ALAM ET AL./6/, AND TOTAL CROSS SECTION AT 40 KEV.        
          ENERGY INDEPENDENT PARAMETERS:                          
            R=9.093 FM, S0=0.92E-4, S2=0.97E-4, WG=0.04 EV.       
          ENERGY DEPENDENT PARAMETERS AT 1 KEV:                   
            S1=3.04E-4, WF=0.093 EV, D=17.16 EV.                  
                                                                  
     CALCULATED 2200M/S CROSS SECTIONS AND RESONANCE INTEGRALS.   
                          2200 M/SEC    RES. INTEG.               
             TOTAL        32.57  B       ---                      
             ELASTIC      11.61  B       ---                      
             FISSION       5.064 B       20.0 B                   
             CAPTURE      15.90  B      109   B                   
                                                                  
MF=3  NEUTRON CROSS SECTIONS                                      
     BELOW 40 KEV, CROSS SECTIONS WERE REPRESENTED WITH RESONANCE 
     PARAMETERS.                                                  
     MT=18,19  A 1/V COMPONENT IS GIVEN AT LOW ENERGIES           
     MT=251  MU-L CALCULATED WITH OPTICAL AND STATISTICAL MODEL   
              CODE CASTHY/9/.                                     
MF=4      ANGULAR DISTRIBUTIONS OF SECONDARY NEUTRONS             
 MT=2 LEGENDRE COEFFICIENTS CALCULATED WITH THE OPTICAL AND       
      STATISTICAL MODELS WERE GIVEN.                              
 MT 51,52,53  LEGENDRE COEFFICIENTS COMPUTED BY SYSMF FROM JUPITOR
            BY ADDING ISOTROPIC STATISTICAL CONTRIBUTION          
 MT 16,54 TO 79 AND 91 ASSUMED ISOTROPIC IN THE LABORATORY SYST.  
 MT 18,19,20  ASSUMED ISOTROPIC IN THE LABORATORY SYSTEM          
 MT=16,17,18  ISOTROPIC DISTRIBUTIONS IN THE LABORATORY SYSTEM.   
MF=5  ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS OF SECONDARY NEUTRONS                  
 MT 16  EVAPORATION SPECTRUM(LF=9) ASSUMED, WITH T=T(E)GIVEN SE-  
  PARATELY FOR EACH NEUTRON                                       
 MT=17 EVAPORATION SPECTRUM.                                      
 MT 18,19  SIMPLE FISSION SPECTRUM,MAXWELLINA(LF=7) ASSUMED, WITH 
  T=T(E) FROM SYSTEMATICS                                         
 MT 20  EVAPORATION SPECTRUM(LF=9) WITH T=T(E)                    
 MT=91  EVAPORATION SPECTRUM(LF=9) WITH T=T(E)                    
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  COMPUTER CODES USED FOR THE JEF-2.2 EVALUATION                  
    1)-CRESO     RESONANCE REGION DATA                            
    2)-HAUSER5 STATISTICAL MODEL IN CONTINUUM REGION CALCULATIONS 
    3)-JUPITOR ,ADAPE FOR SHAPE ELASTIC ,DIRECT INELASTIC         
      AND TOTAL CROSS SECTIONS                                    
    4)-JUPITOR,ADAPE  FOR ANGULAR DISTRIBUTIONS                   
    5)-SYSMF     DATA HANDLING AND FILE GENERATION                
    6)DICTION,CHECKER4,SUMUP4 CONSISTENCY CHECK ON FINAL TAPE     
REFERENCES  Of THE JENDL-3.2 evaluation                           
 1) IGARASI S. AND NAKAGAWA T.: JAERI-M 8342 (1979).              
 2) NAKAGAWA T.: TO BE PUBLISHED AS JAERI-M REPORT.               
 3) TUTTLE R.J.: INDC(NDS)-107/G+SPECIAL, 29 (1979).              
 4) HOWERTON R.J.: NUCL. SCI. ENG. 62, 438 (1977).                
 5) ARTAMONOV V.S. ET AL. : PROC. OF 4TH ALL UNION CONF. ON       
    NEUTRON PHYSICS, KIEV (1977), VOL. 2, 257.                    
 6) ALAM B. ET AL.: NUCL. SCI. ENG., 99, 267 (1988).              
 7) MUGHABGHAB S.F.: "NEUTRON CROSS SECTIONS, VOL. 1, PART B",    
    ACADEMIC PRESS (1984).                                        
 8) KIKUCHI Y.: PRIVATE COMMUNICATION.                            
 9) IGARASI S.: J. NUCL. SCI. TECHNOL., 12, 67 (1975).            
10) PHILLIPS T.W. AND HOWE R.E.: NUCL. SCI. ENG. 69, 375 (1979).  
11) ENSDF, EVALUATED NUCLEAR STRUCTURE DATA FILE, AS OF JAN. 1989.
12) PEARLSTEIN S.: J. NUCL. ENERGY 27, 81 (1973).                 
13) VOROTNIKOV P.E. ET AL.: SOV. J. NUCL. PHYS., 40, 726 (1984).  
14) IGARASI S. AND NAKAGAWA T.: JAERI-M 7175 (1977).              
15) BEHRENS J.W. AND HOWERTON R.J.: NUCL. SCI. ENG., 65, 464      
    (1978).                                                       
16) SMITH A.B. ET AL.: ANL/NDM-50 (1979).                         
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