a neutron cross section is used to express the likelihood of interaction between an incident neutron and a target nucleus. The neutron cross section σ...

October 2012. XSPlot an online neutron cross section plotter Thermal Neutron Capture Data Thermal Neutron Cross Sections at the International Atomic Energy...

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cross sections, or for specific processes, distinguishing elastic scattering and inelastic scattering; of the latter, amongst neutron cross sections the...

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cross section. But different ranges with different names are observed in other sources. The following is a detailed classification: A thermal neutron...

physics a "gas" of low-energy neutrons collides with nuclei in a reactor or other nuclear device, with a cross section that is energy-dependent and hence...

reactors, a neutron poison (also called a neutron absorber or a nuclear poison) is a substance with a large neutron absorption cross-section. In such applications...

adapted to detect neutrons. While neutrons do not typically cause ionization, the addition of a nuclide with high neutron cross-section allows the detector...

low mass, high scattering cross section, and low absorption cross section. After sufficient impacts, the speed of the neutron will be comparable to the...

which has a high propensity to capture low energy "thermal" neutrons. The neutron cross section of 10B (3,837 barns) is 1,000 times more than that of other...

thermal neutron cross section larger than that of 235 U. About 73% of the 239 Pu created this way will undergo fission from capturing a thermal neutron while...

which required a coolant with a low neutron cross section, in this case carbon dioxide, and an efficient neutron moderator, graphite. The Magnox design...

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nor very fertile (requiring 3 more neutron captures to become fissile); and has a low neutron capture cross section, and a longer half-life than any of...

against outside neutron fluxes (especially in combination with Li-6) ...The very high cross section of this reaction for thermalized neutrons, combined with...

nucleus, neutrons interact primarily with the nucleus itself, as described by Fermi's pseudopotential. Neutron scattering and absorption cross sections vary...

of the neutron, whether fast or thermal, or somewhere in between. It is also dependent on the nucleus it strikes and its neutron cross section. In inelastic...

best she could. She measured the neutron cross sections of thorium, lead and uranium using dysprosium as a neutron detector, an assay technique pioneered...

absorb enough fast neutrons to carry on the chain reaction, due to the lower cross section for higher-energy neutrons, so a neutron moderator must be introduced...

important resonances, the total neutron cross-section of every material exhibits an inverse relationship with relative neutron velocity. Hot fuel is always...

is stable) as a fission product and via neutron capture from nonradioactive 133Cs (neutron capture cross section 29 barns), which is a common fission product...

number of neutrons travelling through a small sphere of radius R {\displaystyle R} in a time interval, divided by a maximal cross section of the sphere...

moderator normally is much hotter. The neutron cross section for fission is higher in 235 U the lower the neutron temperature is, and thus lower temperatures...

Certain nuclides have a high neutron capture cross section, which is the probability of absorbing a neutron. Upon neutron capture, the compound nucleus...

Neutron diffraction or elastic neutron scattering is the application of neutron scattering to the determination of the atomic and/or magnetic structure...

of the bomb. While 7Li has a small neutron cross-section for low neutron energies, it has a higher cross section above 5 MeV. The 15 Mt yield was 150%...

and operators with problems due to its large neutron cross section for absorption. Because absorbing neutrons can impair a nuclear reactor's ability to increase...

of absorbing many neutrons without themselves decaying. These elements have different neutron capture cross sections for neutrons of various energies...

caesium-137, are unable to capture enough neutrons for effective transmutation to occur due to their small neutron cross-section and resultingly low capture rate...