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Cross section measurement for the 14N(n,α0,1)11B reactions in the 4.5–11.5 MeV neutron energy region

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With more accurate measurement method for gas samples, cross sections of the 14N(n,α0,1)11B reactions were measured at 24 energy points in the 4.5–11.5 MeV neutron energy region based on the 4.5 MV Van de Graaff accelerator at Peking University and the HI-13 tandem accelerator of China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE). The average neutron fluence (Φ) through the gas sample was obtained through the combination of a highly enriched 238U3O8 sample and the simulation based on SuperMC. The cross sections of the 14N(n,α0)11B reaction measured using the gas sample and the solid samples are in agreement with each other. R-matrix analysis was carried out for the n + 14N system using code RAC in the neutron energy region below 30 MeV. A possible valley structure in both the excitation functions of the 14N(n,α0,1)11B reactions in the 10–11 MeV neutron energy region was found for the first time.

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This manuscript has no associated data or the data will not be deposited. [Authors’ comment: Since the data for this study contains unpublished work, participants in this study do not agree to share their data publicly, so there is no supporting data].

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Acknowledgements

This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12075008), the Key Laboratory of Nuclear Data foundation (6142A08200103), and the State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University (Grant No. NPT2021KFJ57).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Institute of Heavy Ion Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Yiwei Hu, Zengqi Cui, Jie Liu, Haofan Bai, Cong Xia, Zepeng Wu, Wenkai Ren, Wentian Cao, Tieshuan Fan, Guohui Zhang, Yuan Gao & Xiangjun Yang

  2. Naval University of Engineering, Wuhan, 430033, China

    Yiwei Hu

  3. Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, 141980, Russia

    Yu. M. Gledenov, E. Sansarbayar & I. Chuprakov

  4. Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Zhenpeng Chen

  5. National Key Laboratory of Intense Pulsed Radiation Simulation and Effect, Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology, Xi’an, 710024, China

    Zepeng Wu

  6. Nuclear Research Centre, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

    E. Sansarbayar & G. Khuukhenkhuu

  7. Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, 141980, Russia

    L. Krupa

  8. Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Horska 3a/22, Prague 2, 12800, Czech Republic

    L. Krupa

  9. The Institute of Nuclear Physics, Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, 050032, Kazakhstan

    I. Chuprakov

  10. China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, 102413, China

    Qiwen Fan, Xichao Ruan, Hanxiong Huang & Jie Ren

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Hu, Y., Gledenov, Y.M., Cui, Z. et al. Cross section measurement for the 14N(n,α0,1)11B reactions in the 4.5–11.5 MeV neutron energy region. Eur. Phys. J. A 60, 51 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-024-01268-9

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