Neutron inelastic scattering is an important process involved in many applications but also for background studies supporting more fundamental research area. In the fast energy range, it is one of the major nucleon-nucleus interactions and its cross section constantly increases above the threshold energy of the first excited state up to a few MeV. In the field of nuclear energy applications or...
Measurements are routinely performed at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Gaerttner Linear Accelerator (LINAC) Center to generate nuclear data for different neutron reactions in multiple energy ranges. These measurements use neutrons generated by a 60 MeV pulsed electron LINAC and various neutron and gamma detection systems at different flight path lengths. A new project was...
Capture-to-fission cross section ratios are used as an alternative to absolute cross section measurements. This is due to the simplification on the calculations and the reduction of the uncertainties with respect to an absolute measurement of the cross section by eliminating experimental complications like self-absorption, beam/target overlap and non-uniformities. Different capture-to-fission...
