Revisiting the238U thermal capture cross section and gamma-ray emission probabilities from239Np decay

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 336-348

  Trkov, A ^a   Molnar G L ^b   Revay Zs ^b   Mughabghab, S F ^c   Firestone, R B ^d   Pronyaev, V G ^a   Nichols, A L ^a   Moxon, M C ^e  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^b CHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Hungary)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GAMMA RAYS; ISOTOPES; NEPTUNIUM; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PROBABILITY;

DISCREPANT DATA; GAMMA-RAY EMISSION; THERMAL CAPTURE CROSS SECTION; URANIUM ISOTOPES;

URANIUM;

EID: 22944468496     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE05-A2520     Document Type: Article

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