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 99-Es-253 NEA        RCOM-JUN82 SCIENTIFIC CO-ORDINATION GROUP   
                      DIST-JAN09                     20090105     
----JEFF-311          MATERIAL 9913                               
-----INCIDENT NEUTRON DATA                                        
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**         Original data taken from:  JEFF-3.1                  **
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**         Original data taken from:  JEF-2.2                   **
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*   JEF-2                                                        *
*     DATA WERE TAKEN FROM ENDF/B-V(MAT=8953).                   *
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*    3-JAN-85: RADIOACTIVE DECAY DATA DELETED.                    
*    4-JAN-85: Q-VALUE FOR MT=102 CORRECTED                       
*    7-APR-88: CHANGE OF THE FLAG FROM SINGLE LEVEL TO MULTI LEVEL
*              BREIT-WIGNER RESONANCE PARAMETERS.FOR THE SPIN OF  
*              L=0,RESONANCES HAVE BEEN RANDOMLY ASSIGNED BY THE  
*              COMPUTER CODE RNDSPIN (H. GRUPPELAAR)              
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           BNL,SRL    EVAL-JUL76 KINSEY,BENJAMIN, AND MCCROSSON   
                      DIST-DEC78                       790307     
     WORK BASED ON THE FOLLOWING EVALUATION CONVERTED TO ENDF/B   
 -V FORMATS AND MERGED WITH THE RADIOACTIVE DECAY DATA OF C. REICH
*         *           *          *          *          *          
 EINSTEINIUM-253 EVALUATION DECEMBER 1975 - R.W.BENJAMIN AND      
                                            F.J.MCCROSSON AT SRL  
*          *          *          *          *          *          
MF=2                  RESONANCE PARAMETERS(0 TO 10 KEV)           
  MT=151 RESOLVED RESONANCES   RESONANCE PARAMETERS DETERMINED BY 
     THE GENRPAR CODE(REF.1) BASED UPON RESONANCE INTEGRALS AND   
     THERMAL CROSS SECTIONS FROM INTEGRAL(REF.2) AND PRODUCTION   
     (REF.3) MEASUREMENTS.  THE LARGE RESONANCE INTEGRAL AND RELA-
     TIVELY SMALL THERMAL CROSS SECTION FROM THE MEASUREMENTS DIC-
     TATED THAT THE GENRPAR CALCULATIONS USE AN UNUSUALLY LARGE   
     STRENGTH FUNCTION(1.84E-04) COUPLED WITH A VERY SMALL RADIA- 
     TION WIDTH(20 MILLIVOLTS).  THE NEED FOR SUCH EXTREME VALUES 
     CASTS SUSPICION ON THE VERY LOW 2200 M/S CAPTURE CROSS SEC-  
     TION()3 BARNS) DEDUCED BY HARBOUR AND MACMURDO(REF.2) FOR    
     THE FORMATION OF ES-254G.  RESOLVED REGION - 0 TO 101.2 EV.  
         UNRESOLVED RESONANCES   SAME BASIS AS RESOLVED WITH AVER-
     AGE RESONANCE PARAMETERS.  UNRESOLVED REGION - 101.2 EV TO   
     10 KEV.                                                      
  NOTE: A BOUND LEVEL AT -2.057 EV WAS REMOVED FROM THE SRL       
     EVALUATION AND APPROPRIATE BACKGROUND CROSS SECTIONS ADDED.  
CROSS SECTION         SIGMA(0.0253 EV)      I(0.5 EV - 20 MEV)    
TOTAL                  209.841                                    
ELASTIC                  8.799                                    
CAPTURE                201.042               6336.81              
MF=3                  BACKGROUND CROSS SECTION(1.-5EV TO 10KEV)   
  MT=1 SUM OF EL AND NG BACKGROUNDS.                              
  MT=2 CONSTANT BACKGROUND UP TO THE FIRST RESONSANCE THEN GOING  
     RAPIDLY TO ZERO. CONSTANT CHOSEN TO GIVE A THERMAL CROSS     
     SECTION EQUAL TO 90( OF THE SPHERICAL OPTICAL MODEL VALUE.   
  MT=102 CALCULATED TO GIVE THE SAME CURVE AS WAS OBTAINED        
     WHEN THE BOUND LEVEL WAS INCLUDED.                           
MF=3                  SMOOTH CROSS SECTIONS(10 KEV TO 20 MEV)     
  ***    THE DATA IN FILE 3 ARE GIVEN ONLY SO THAT THE VARIOUS    
     PROCESSING CODES CAN WORK.  CONTINUITY WITH THE UNRESOLVED   
      REGION IS PROVIDED, BUT THE CROSS SECTIONS DROP IMMEDIATELY 
     TO ZERO.  THE ELASTIC CROSS SECTION IS THE POTENTIAL SCATTER-
     ING CROSS SECTION CALCULATED WITH A SPHERICAL OPTICAL MODEL  
     POTENTIAL AT 10 KEV.                                         
MF=4                    ANGULAR DISTRIBUTIONS                     
  MT=2                    ELASTIC                                 
    DISTRIBUTIONS TAKEN FROM ENDF/B-V CF-251                      
                      REFERENCES                                  
  1. F.J.MCCROSSON,PROC.CONF.NEUT.CROSS SECT.AND TECH.,KNOXVILLE  
     TN,MARCH 1971,P.714.                                         
  2. R.M.HARBOUR AND K.W.MACMURDO,J.INORG.NUCL.CHEM.35(1973)1821. 
  3. R.W.BENJAMIN,F.J.MCCROSSON,V.D.VANDERVELDE,AND T.C.GORRELL,  
     USERDA REPORT DP-1394(1975).                                 
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