Influence of the statistical distribution of level parameters on compound nuclear cross sections for strongly overlapping resonances

We examine numerically the influence of the distribution of the poles and residues of the $K$ matrix on the elastic enhancement factor $W$ in the Hauser-Feshbach formula. For a distribution of pole parameters consistent with the results of random matrix theory, our results strongly suggest a value of $W=2.0\mathrm{}$, in the limit of strongly overlapping resonances.