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Neutrons with energies of 0.3 to 1.5 MeV are scattered from W184. Pulsed-beam fast time-of-flight techniques including a magnetic bunching system are utilized to resolve the elastically scattered neutrons from those inelastically scattered. The differential elastic cross section is measured at 50 keV intervals with an ≈20 keV incident neutron energy spread. The differential cross sections for inelastic scattering resulting in the excitation of residual nuclear levels at 111±5, 365±10, 690±40, 900±25, 1000±30, and 1120±30 keV are determined. In all instances the inelastically scattered neutrons are emitted, within experimental error, isotropically. The experimental results are compared with those obtained in previous work and with the predictions of theory.
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This work supported by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
The author is indebted to D.Reitmann and J.Devilliers for assistance in carrying out many of the experimental measurements and toMoldauer for theoretical discussions.
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Smith, A.B. The scattering of fast neutrons from W184 . Z. Physik 175, 242–256 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01375102
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01375102