Improved photon-production data for thermal-neutron capture in ENDF

1 January 2000

proceedings article
Published by AIP Publishing in AIP Conference Proceedings

Vol. 529 (1) , 697-699
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1361457

Abstract

High-quality photon-production data from thermal-neutron-capture reactions are important for many applications, including oil-well logging, planetary gamma-ray spectroscopy, and environmental techniques. Radiation-transport codes usually access photon-production data from the national U.S. nuclear database, ENDF/B. To improve the photon-production data for thermal-neutron capture, we have compiled and evaluated the energies and intensities of gamma rays for most naturally occurring isotopes with Z <31 and for a few heavy isotopes. The new compilation of photon-production data is being incorporated into the latest ENDF/B evaluations for each isotope and will be provided for future releases of the ENDF/B database.

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