THERMAL NEUTRON CAPTURE CROSS-SECTION OF Na23 AND Mn55

1953 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 204-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalie M. Bartholomew ◽  
R. C. Hawkings ◽  
W. F. Merritt ◽  
L. Yaffe

The thermal neutron capture cross sections of Na23 and Mn55 have been determined using the activation method. The values are 0.53 ± 0.03 and 12.7 ± 0.3 barns respectively with respect to σAul97 = 93 barns. These agree well with recent pile oscillator results. The half-life for Mn56 is found to be 2.576 ± 0.002 hr.


1955 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 457-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. E. Bell ◽  
R. L. Graham ◽  
L. Yaffe

The thermal neutron capture cross section of radioactive Au198 has been measured by the activation method as 26,000 ± 1200 barns, assuming 99 barns for the thermal neutron cross section of Au197. Metallic Au197 was bombarded in fluxes up to 9 × 1013 thermal neutrons cm.−2 sec.−1 to produce a mixture of Au198 and Au199 by the successive neutron capture reactions Au197(n, γ)Au198(n, γ)Au199. The ratio of the Au199 activity to Au198 activity so produced yields σc(Au197). In a preliminary experiment, the half-life of Au199 was measured as 3.148 ± 0.010 days.



1958 ◽  
Vol 36 (8) ◽  
pp. 989-996 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Cabell

The thermal neutron capture cross section and the resonance capture integral of Th230 have been determined by an activation method. Assumptions are made that the thermal capture cross section and the resonance capture integral of Co59 are 36.5 barns and 48.6 barns respectively, that the half-life of Th230 is 8.00 × 104 years, and that Th230 behaves as a 1/v absorber in the subcadmium region. Based on these assumptions values of σ2200 = 21.4 ± 0.3 barns and of 937 ± 32 barns for the resonance absorption integral (from 0.5 ev to ∞) have been obtained for Th230.The half-life of Th231 has been determined as 25.52 ± 0.01 hours.





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