Statistical Features of the Thermal Neutron Capture Cross Sections

We discuss the existence of huge thermal neutron capture cross sections in several nuclei. The values of the cross sections are several orders of magnitude bigger than expected at these very low energies. We lend support to the idea that this phenomenon is random in nature and is similar to what we...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hussein, M. S., Carlson, B. V., Kerman, Arthur Kent
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Jagiellonian University/Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103061