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The use of ko-factors as a tool for a critical evaluation of reactor thermal and epithermal (n, γ) cross-sections and of absolute gamma-intensities

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By comparison of experimental k0-factors, determined in reactor positions with greatly different thermal-to-epithermal neutron flux ratios, and by comparison of experimentally determined and theoretically calculated k0-factors, it is possible in some cases to select best values from literature data for (n, γ) activation cross-sections and for absolute gamma intensities. This is demonstrated for97Zr,95Zr,56Mn and65Zn.

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  1. Institute for Nuclear Sciences, Rijksuniversiteit Gent, Proeftuinstraat 86, B-9000, Gent, Belgium

    L. Moens, F. De Corte & J. Hoste

  2. Central Research Institute for Physics, H-1525, Budapest, Hungary

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Moens, L., De Corte, F., Hoste, J. et al. The use of ko-factors as a tool for a critical evaluation of reactor thermal and epithermal (n, γ) cross-sections and of absolute gamma-intensities. J. Radioanal. Chem. 45, 221–239 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02517129

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