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The empirical equation of (n, p) nuclear cross-section is formulated at 14–15 meV incident neutron energy. The data used for the construction of the empirical formula is obtained from EXFOR with a mass range of \(9 < A < 111\). From the data, we fit empirical formula with exponential dependency of \(\left( {\frac{N - Z + A}{A}} \right)^{n}\) where n is determined from the non-linear fitting. The empirical formulation is then compared using the chi-square coefficient as a quality criterion. The derived empirical formulation is compared with five previously published formulation. We show that the new formulation derived in this work gives good agreement with the experimental nuclear cross-section value.
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The authors express their appreciation to Yayasan Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS for the financial support of this study in the form of a research grant (YUTP Cost Centre: 015LC0-063).
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Hamid, M.A.B., Guan, B.H., Chew, X.Y., Ayub, S. (2021). Empirical Formulation of (n, p) Nuclear Cross-Section at 14–15 meV. In: Abdul Karim, S.A., Abd Shukur, M.F., Fai Kait, C., Soleimani, H., Sakidin, H. (eds) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Fundamental and Applied Sciences. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4513-6_63
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