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 96-Cm-243 JAERI      EVAL-MAR89 T.NAKAGAWA                       
                      DIST-JAN09                     20090105     
----JEFF-311          MATERIAL 9634                               
-----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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  05-01 NEA/OECD (Rugama) 8 delayed neutron groups                
  Jefdoc-976 (Wilson and England, Prog Nucl Eng 41,71(2002)       
                                                                  
                                                                  
*****************************   JEFF-3.0   ***********************
                                                                  
   DATA TAKEN FROM   :-   JEF-2.2   (DIST-JAN92)                  
                          JENDL-3.2 (DIST-SEP90 REV-SEP93)        
                          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.          
    Energy released by fission and photon production data were    
    taken from ENDF/B-VI                                          
    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, 3/19, 3/102                                   
                                                                  
    All the threshold reactions are from JEF-2.2, i.e             
    3/4, 3/16, 3/17, 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=16,18,19 and 20. Fission      
    spectrum in JEF-2.2 is energy dependent while it isn't in     
    JENDL-3.2.                                                    
    For MT=37, the energy distribution was taken from 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 MF=5 ENERGY LIMITS CORRECTED.  
   28-DEC-84: ENERGY REGIONS EXTENDED TO 20 MEV.                  
   11-MAR-86: ONE VALUE AT 20 MEV IN MF=5,MT=16 CORRECTED         
    6-APR-88: THE SPIN OF L=0,RESONANCES HAVE BEEN RANDOMLY       
              ASSIGNED BY THE COMPUTER CODE RNDSPIN               
                                                                  
 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-243           NEUTRON CROSS SECTION EVALUATION         
 EVALUATION DESCRIBED IN CNEN REPORT RT/FI(81)23 (1981)           
                                                                  
Relevent description extracted from the two evaluations           
MF=1  GENERAL INFORMATION                                         
  MT=451  DESCRIPTIVE DATA                                        
  MT=452  NUMBER OF NEUTRONS PER FISSION                          
        SUM OF MT=455 AND MT=456.                                 
  MT=455  DELAYED NEUTRON DATA                                    
        ESTIMATED FROM THE SYSTEMATICS BY TUTTLE /3/.             
  MT=456  NUMBER OF PROMPT NEUTRONS PER FISSION                   
        BASED ON THE EXPERIMENTAL DATA AT THERMAL ENERGY BY JAFFEY
        AND LERNER /4/, AND ZHURAVLEV ET AL. /5/, AND ON THE      
        EMPIRICAL FORMULA BY HOWERTON /6/.                        
                                                                  
MF=2  RESONANCE PARAMETERS                                        
  MT=151  RESONANCE PARAMETERS                                    
     RESOLVED RESONANCE REGION (SLBW): 1.0E-5 EV TO 70 EV.        
          RESONANCE ENERGIES = ANUFRIEV ET AL. /7/                
          NEUTRON WIDTHS     = ANUFRIEV ET AL. /7/ (ASSUMING 2G=1)
          RADIATIVE WIDTHS   = 0.040 EV (ASSUMED)                 
          FISSION WIDTHS     = TOTAL WIDTH /7/ - (WN+WG)          
          SCATTERING RADIUS  = 10 FM.                             
        A NEGATIVE RESONANCE WAS ADOPTED SO AS TO REPRODUCE WELL  
        THE THERMAL CROSS SECTIONS/8/.                            
     UNRESOLVED RESONANCE PARAMETERS : 70 EV - 40 KEV             
        PARAMETERS WERE DETERMINED WITH A FITTING CODE ASREP/9/ SO
        AS TO REPRODUCE THE FISSION CROSS SECTION BASED ON SILBERT
        /10/, AND THE TOTAL CROSS SECTION CALCULATED WITH OPTICAL 
        MODEL.                                                    
          ENERGY INDEPENDENT PARAMETERS:                          
            R=9.810 FM, S2=1.70E-4, WG=0.04 EV, WF=1.481 EV       
          ENERGY DEPENDENT PARAMETERS AT 1 KEV:                   
            S0=1.32E-4, S1=1.06E-4, D=0.799 EV.                   
                                                                  
      CALCULATED 2200M/S CROSS SECTIONS AND RESONANCE INTEGRALS.  
                           2200 M/SEC    RES. INTEG.              
              TOTAL         757.5  B        -                     
              ELASTIC         9.926 B       -                     
              FISSION       617.4  B      1560 B                  
              CAPTURE       130.2  B       199 B                  
                                                                  
MF=3  NEUTRON CROSS SECTIONS                                      
     BELOW 40 KEV, CROSS SECTIONS WERE REPRESENTED WITH RESONANCE 
     PARAMETERS.                                                  
                                                                  
      MT 1,2 AND 102 AND MT 18, 19    -NO SMOOTH BACKGROUND       
      MT=251  MU-L CALCULATED WITH OPTICAL AND STATISTICAL MODEL  
              CODE CASTHY/9/.                                     
                                                                  
  MT=37 (N,4N) CROSS SECTIONS                                     
        CALCULATED WITH THE EVAPORATION MODEL BY PEARLSTEIN/16/.  
        NEUTRON EMISSION CROSS SECTION WAS ASSUMED TO BE (COMPOUND
        NUCLEUS FORMATION CROSS SECTION CALCULATED WITH OPTICAL   
        MODEL - FISSION).                                         
                                                                  
                                                                  
MF=4  ANGULAR DISTRIBUTIONS OF SECONDARY NEUTRONS                 
  MT=2  LEGENDRE COEFFICIENTS CALCULATED WITH CASTHY /11/.        
  MT=16,54 TO 62 AND 91-ASSUMED ISOTROPIC IN THE LABORATORY SYSTEM
  MT=51,52,53-LEGENDRE COEFF.COMPUTED BY SYSMF FROM JUPITOR AND   
   ADAPE HAVING ADDED ISOTROPIC STATISTICAL CONTRIBUTION          
  MT=17,18,19,20 and 37 ASSUMED ISOTROPIC IN THE LABORATORY SYSTEM
                                                                  
                                                                  
MF=5  ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS OF SECONDARY NEUTRONS                  
 MT 16-EVAPORATION SPECTRUM (LF=9) ASSUMED, WITH T=T(E) GIVEN     
   SPERATELY FOR EACH EMITTED NEUTRON                             
 MT 18,19-SIMPLE FISSION SPECTRUM, MAXWELLIAN (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 FOR THE JENDL-3.2 evaluation                           
 1) NAKAGAWA T. AND IGARASI S.: JAERI-M 9601 (1981).              
 2) NAKAGAWA T.: TO BE PUBLISHED AS JAERI-M REPORT.               
 3) TUTTLE R.J.: INDC(NDS)-107/G+SPECIAL, 29 (1979).              
 4) JAFFEY A.H. AND LERNER J.L.: NUCL. PHYS., A145, 1, (1970).    
 5) ZHURAVLEV K.D. ET AL. : PROC. 2ND NAT. SOVIET CONF. ON NEUT.  
    PHYS., VOL.4, 57 (1974).                                      
 6) HOWERTON R.J.: NUCL. SCI. ENG., 62, 438 (1977).               
 7) ANUFRIEV V.A. ET AL.: SOV. AT. ENERGY, 51, 736 (1982).        
 8) MUGHABGHAB S.F.: "NEUTRON CROSS SECTIONS, VOL.1, PART B",     
    ACADEMIC PRESS (1984).                                        
 9) KIKUCHI Y.: PRIVATE COMMUNICATION.                            
10) SILBERT M.G.: LA-6239 (1976).                                 
11) IGARASI S.: J. NUCL. SCI. TECHNOL., 12, 67 (1975).            
12) IGARASI S. AND NAKAGAWA T.: JAERI-M 8342 (1979).              
13) PHILLIPS T.W. AND HOWE R.E.: NUCL. SCI. ENG. 69, 375 (1979).  
14) ELLIS-AKOVALI Y.A.: NUCL. DATA SHEETS, 44, 407 (1985).        
15) ENSDF, EVALUATED NUCLEAR STRUCTURE DATA FILE, AS OF JAN. 1989.
16) PEARLSTEIN S.: J. NUCL. ENERGY 27, 81 (1973).                 
17) FOMUSHKIN E.F. ET AL.: SOV. AT. ENERGY, 62, 337 (1987).       
18) A.B. SMITH ET AL. : ANL/NDM-50 (1979).                        
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