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EDP Sciences, EPJ Web of Conferences, (111), p. 02002, 2016

DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201611102002

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Towards the high-accuracy determination of the238U fission cross section at the threshold region at CERN – n_TOF

Journal article published in 2016 by M. Diakaki, L. Audouin, E. Berthoumieux, M. Calviani, N. Colonna, E. Dupont, I. Duran, F. Gunsing, E. Leal-Cidoncha, C. Le Naour, L. S. Leong, M. Mastromarco, C. Paradela, D. Tarrio, L. Tassan-Got and other authors.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

The 238U fission cross section is an international standard beyond 2 MeV where the fission plateau starts. However, due to its importance in fission reactors, this cross-section should be very accurately known also in the threshold region below 2 MeV. The 238U fission cross section has been measured relative to the 235U fission cross section at CERN – n_TOF with different detection systems. These datasets have been collected and suitably combined to increase the counting statistics in the threshold region from about 300 keV up to 3 MeV. The results are compared with other experimental data, evaluated libraries, and the IAEA standards.