95-Am-243

 95-AM-243 JAERI      EVAL-MAR88 T.NAKAGAWA                       
JAERI-M 89-008        DIST-SEP89                                  
----JENDL-3.2         MATERIAL 9549                               
-----INCIDENT NEUTRON DATA                                        
------ENDF-6 FORMAT                                               
HISTORY                                                           
77-03 NEW EVALUATION WAS MADE BY S.IGARASI AND T.NAKAGAWA (JAERI).
      DETAILS ARE GIVEN IN REF. /1/.                              
82-03 COMPLETE REEVALUATION FOR JENDL-2 WAS MADE BY Y.KIKUCHI     
      (JAERI).  DETAILS ARE GIVEN IN REF. /2/.                    
88-03 REEVALUATED FOR JENDL-3 WAS MADE BY T.NAKAGAWA (JAERI)/3/.  
                                                                  
MF=1  GENERAL INFORMATION                                         
  MT=451   COMMENT AND DICTIONARY                                 
  MT=452   NUMBER OF NEUTRONS PER FISSION                         
              SUM OF NU-P (MT=456) AND NU-D (MT=455).             
  MT=455   DELAYED NEUTRON DATA                                   
              ESTIMATED WITH SEMI-EMPIRICAL FORMULA BY TUTTLE /4/.
  MT=456   NUMBER OF PROMPT NEUTRONS                              
              ESTIMATED FROM SYSTEMATICS. SAME AS PREVIOUS EVALUA-
              TION /1/.                                           
                                                                  
MF=2,MT=151   RESONANCE PARAMETERS                                
  RESOLVED RESONANCES FOR MLBW FORMULA : 1.0E-5 - 215 EV.         
        JENDL-2 EVALUATION/2/ WAS BASED ON THE DATA OF SIMPSON ET 
        AL./5/.  THE FISSION WIDTHS WERE MODIFIED FOR JENDL-3 ON  
        THE BASIS OF KNITTER AND BUDTZ-JORGENSEN/6/.  VALUES OF   
        TOTAL SPIN WERE ASSUMED ARBITRARILY.                      
                                                                  
  UNRESOLVED RESONANCES : 215 EV - 30 KEV                         
        PARAMETERS OF JENDL-2 WERE ADOPTED.                       
           OBTAINED FROM OPTICAL MODEL CALCULATION:               
                S0=0.93E-4, S1=2.44E-4, R=9.34 FM                 
           ESTIMATED FROM RESOLVED RESONANCES:                    
                DOBS=0.67 EV, WG=0.039 EV, WF=0.00012 EV          
                                                                  
  CALCULATED 2200-M/S CROSS SECTIONS AND RESONANCE INTEGRALS      
                      2200 M/S VALUE       RES. INT.              
        TOTAL           86.10  B             -                    
        ELASTIC          7.483 B             -                    
        FISSION         0.1161 B            7.59  B               
        CAPTURE         78.50  B            1830  B               
                                                                  
MF=3  NEUTRON CROSS SECTIONS                                      
  BELOW 30 KEV: CROSS SECTIONS WERE REPRESENTED WITH THE          
                RESONANCE PARAMETERS.                             
  ABOVE 30 KEV:                                                   
                                                                  
  MT=1,2  TOTAL AND ELASTIC SCATTERING CROSS SECTIONS             
        CALCULATED WITH OPTICAL AND STATISTICAL MODEL CODE        
        CASTHY/7/.  OPTICAL POTENTIAL PARAMETERS WERE OBTAINED /8/
        BY FITTING THE DATA OF PHILLIPS AND HOWE /9/ FOR AM-241:  
           V = 43.4 - 0.107*EN                      (MEV)         
           WS= 6.95 - 0.339*EN + 0.0531*EN**2       (MEV)         
           VSO = 7.0                                (MEV)         
           R = RSO = 1.282   , RS = 1.29            (FM)          
           A = ASO = 0.60    , B  = 0.5             (FM)          
                                                                  
  MT=4,51-59,91  INELASTIC SCATTERING CROSS SECTIONS              
        CALCULATED WITH CASTHY/8/.  THE LEVEL SCHEME WAS TAKEN    
        FROM REF. /10/                                            
                   NO         ENERGY(KEV)   SPIN-PARITY           
                  G.S.             0           5/2 -              
                    1             42.2         7/2 -              
                    2             84.0         5/2 +              
                    3             96.4         9/2 -              
                    4            109.3         7/2 +              
                    5            143.5         9/2 +              
                    6            189.3        11/2 +              
                    7            266.0         3/2 -              
                    8            300.0         5/2 -              
                    9            345.0         7/2 -              
                CONTINUUM LEVELS ASSUMED ABOVE 383 KEV.           
        THE LEVEL DENSITY PARAMETERS WERE DETERMINED ON THE BASIS 
        OF NUMBER OF EXCITED LEVELS/11/ AND RESONANCE LEVEL       
        SPACING/12/.                                              
                                 AM-244     AM-243                
                      A(1/MEV)    30.3       31.3                 
                        T(MEV)    0.340      0.355                
                      C(1/MEV)    26.47      11.71                
                      E-X(MEV)    2.373      3.278                
       SPIN-CUTOFF(1/MEV**0.5)    31.39      31.81                
                PAIRING E(MEV)    0.0        0.5                  
                                                                  
  MT=16,17,37  (N,2N), (N,3N) AND (N,4N) REACTION CROSS SECTIONS  
        TAKEN FROM JENDL-2 CALCULATED WITH THE EVAPORATION MODEL. 
                                                                  
  MT=18  FISSION CROSS SECTION                                    
        30 KEV - 100 KEV :  SMOOTH CORVE CONNECTING THE DATA IN   
            THE UNRESOLVED RESONANCE REGION AND ABOVE 100 KEV     
        100 KEV - 10 MEV : SPLINE-FITTING TO KANDA ET AL./13/,    
            FURSOV ET AL./14/ AND KNITTER AND BUDTZ-JORGENSEN/6/. 
        10 MEV - 20 MEV : SHAPE WAS ESTIMATED ON THE BASIS OF     
            BEHRENS AND BROWNE/15/                                
                                                                  
                                                                  
  MT=102 CAPTURE CROSS SECTION                                    
          CALCULATED WITH CASTHY/8/.  THE GAMMA-RAY STRENGTH      
          FUNCTION WAS DETERMINED TO REPRODUCE THE CROSS SECTION  
          OF 2.2 B AT 30 KEV/16/.                                 
                                                                  
  MT=251 MU-L BAR                                                 
          CALCULATED WITH CASTHY/8/.                              
                                                                  
MF=4  ANGULAR DISTRIBUTIONS OF SECONDARY NEUTRONS                 
  MT=2,51-59,91                                                   
          LEGENDRE COEFFICIENTS WERE GIVEN BY THE OPTICAL AND     
          STATISTICAL MODEL CALCULATION.                          
  MT=16,17,18,37                                                  
          ISOTROPIC DISTRIBUTIONS IN THE LABORATORY SYSTEM.       
                                                                  
MF=5  ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS OF SECONDARY NEUTRONS                  
  MT=16,17,37,91                                                  
          EVAPORATION SPECTRUM WITH NUCLEAR TEMPERATURE CALCULATED
          FROM LEVEL DENSITIES.                                   
  MT=18                                                           
          MAXWELLIAN FISSION SPECTRUM ESTIMATED FROM Z**2/A       
          SYSTEMATICS BY SMITH ET AL./17/.                        
                                                                  
REFERENCES                                                        
 1) IGARASI S. AND NAKAGAWA T.: JAERI-M 7174 (1977).              
 2) KIKUCHI Y.: JAERI-M 82-096 (1982).                            
 3) NAKAGAWA T.: JAERI-M 89-008 (1989).                           
 4) TUTTLE R.J. : INDC(NDS)-107/G+SPECIAL , P.29 (1979).          
 5) SIMPSON O.D. ET AL. : NUCL.SCI.ENG.,55,273(1974)              
 6) KNITTER H.-H AND BUDTZ-JORGENSEN C.: 85 SANTA FE, 1, 413      
    (1986).                                                       
 7) IGARASI S. AND FUKAHORI T.: JAERI 1321 (1991).                
 8) IGARASI S. AND NAKAGAWA T.: JAERI-M 8342 (1979).              
 9) PHILLIPS T.W. AND HOWE R.E. : NUCL. SCI. ENG., 69, 375 (1979).
10) ELLIS-AKOVALI Y.A.: NUCL. DATA SHEETS, 33, 79 (1981).         
11) ENSDF, EVALUATED NUCLEAR STRUCTURE DATA FILE (1988).          
12) MUGHABGHAB S.F.: "NEUTRON CROSS SECTIONS, VOL. 1, PART B",    
    ACADEMIC PRESS, INC. (1984).                                  
13) KANDA K. ET AL.: J. NUCL. SCI. TECHNOL., 24, 423 (1987).      
14) FURSOV B. ET AL.: 85 SANTA FE, 1, 641 (1986).                 
15) BEHRENS J.W. AND BROWNE J.C.: NUCL. SCI. ENG., 77, 444 (1981).
16) WESTON L.W. AND TODD J.H.: NUCL. SCI. ENG., 91, 444 (1985).   
17) SMITH A.B.: ANL/NDM-50 (1979).