ENTRY 20795 0 SUBENT 20795001 0 BIB REFERENCE (R,AWRE-O-72/,72,7211) SAME AS EANDC(UK)142-AL (R,AWRE-O-47/,69,6908) FOR DETECTOR DESCRIPTION AUTHOR (D.S.MATHER,P.F.BAMPTON,R.E.COLES,G.JAMES,P.J.NIND) TITLE -MEASUREMENT OF (N,2N) CROSS SECTIONS FOR INCIDENT ENERGIES BETWEEN 6 AND 14 MEV-. INSTITUTE (2UK ALD) FACILITY (VDG ) 6MV VAN DE GRAAFF. 1 MICRO-SEC PULSES AT 9KHZ BY A TOP TERMINAL PULSER. INC-SOURCE (D-T ) FOR 14.3 MEV MEASUREMENTS NEUTRONS WERE PRODUCED BY THE T(D,N) REACTION ON A 2.5MG/CM*2 THICK TI-T TARGET WITH 2 MEV DEUTERONS AND A COLLIMATOR ANGLE OF 97 DEG TO THE FORWARD DIRECTION ENERGY SPREAD ABOUT 200 KEV. FOR 12.4 MEV NEUTRONS THE COLLIMATOR WAS TURNED TO 145 DEGREES, AND 3.5MEV DEUTERONS. EFFECTIVE TARGET THICKNESS WAS 12.5 MG/CM*2 GIVING A NEUTRON SPECTRUM BETWEEN 12.35 AND 12.52 MEV,MEAN 12.4MEV (D-D ) FOR 6 TO 9MEV NEUTRONS THE D(D,N) REACTION AND A DEUTERIUM GAS CELL WERE USED. COLLIMATOR AT 5 DEGREES AND 2MM APERTURE. THE 3.2 MG/CM*2 MO WINDOW TO THE GAS CELL ACCOUTED FOR 140 TO 180KEV LOSS IN NEUTRON ENERGY. NEUTRON ENERGY SPREAD OF 60 TO 100KEV. METHOD .THE NUMBER OF 20 MICRO-SEC GATES AFTER A NEUTRON PULSE CONTAINING 2 OR 3 PULSES FROM NEUTRON CAPTURE IN THE SCINTILLATOR. PART-DET (N ) NEUTRONS DETECTED IN LARGE LOADED LIQ SCIN DETECTOR (STANK) LARGE LOADED LIQUID SCINTILLATOR DESCRIBED IN PR/B 133 1403 1964 CORRECTION .CORRECTION DESCRIBED IN DETAIL IN AWRE-O47/69. SAMPLE COMPOSITION AND IMPURITIES. NEUTRON FLUX ATTENUATION IN SAMPLE AND THE U-238 MONITOR BLOCK PRESENCE OF LOWER ENERGY NEUTRONS IN INCIDENT BEAM MULTIPLE EVENTS IN BEAM BURST, DOUBLE FISSIONS THE EFFECT OF NEUTRON ENERGY SPREAD ON STANDARD FISSION CROSS SECTIONS. LOSS OF SECONDARY NEUTRONS IN THE SAMPLE. NON-UNIFORM ENERGY RESPONSE OF THE LIQUID SCINT. MULTIPLE EVENTS IN BEAM BURST, NEUTRON PULSES FINITE SIZE OF SAMPLE CHANGE IN COUNTER EFFICIENCY WITH SAMPLE (LT 0.2PC) REACTIONS IN SAMPLE HOLDERS PRODUCTION OF (N,2N) EVENTS IN STEEL TUBES. LOSS OF NEUTRONS THROUGH AXIAL HOLE. ERR-ANALYS .ERROR CONTRIBUTIONS FROM NEUTRON FISSION MULTIPLICITIES WERE INCLUDED WITH COUNTING STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTIES.TOTAL ERROR QUOTED IS ONE STANDARD DEVIATION. STATUS .FROM TABLES IN AWRE O72/72 HISTORY (781013C) PDJ. RECOMPILED FROM NEUDADA. (790219E) (20050810N) Converted from iso-quant ENDBIB NOCOMMON 0 0 ENDSUBENT