96-Cm-244

 96-CM-244 JAERI      EVAL-MAR89 T.NAKAGAWA                       
                      DIST-SEP89                                  
----JENDL-3.2         MATERIAL 9637                               
-----INCIDENT NEUTRON DATA                                        
------ENDF-6 FORMAT                                               
HISTORY                                                           
77-03 EVALUATION FOR JENDL-2 WAS MADE BY S.IGARASI AND T.NAKAGAWA 
      (JAERI) /1/.                                                
89-03 RE-EVALUATION FOR JENDL-3 WAS MADE BY T.NAKAGAWA(JAERI)/2/. 
                                                                  
MF=1  GENERAL INFORMATION                                         
  MT=451  DESCRIPTIVE DATA                                        
  MT=452  NUMBER OF NEUTRONS PER FISSION                          
        SUM OF MT=455 AND MT=456.                                 
  MT=455  NUMBER OF DELAYED NEUTRONS PER FISSION                  
        ESTIMATED FROM SEMI-EMPIRICAL FORMULA BY TUTTLE /3/.      
  MT=456  NUMBER OF PROMPT NEUTRONS PER FISSION                   
        DETERMINED FROM SEMI-EMPIRICAL FORMULA BY HOWERTON /4/.   
                                                                  
MF=2  RESONANCE PARAMETERS                                        
  MT=151  RESONANCE PARAMETERS                                    
     RESOLVED RESONANCE REGION (MLBW) : 1.0E-5 TO 1 KEV           
        ABOVE 20 EV, PARAMETERS BY MOORE AND KEYWORTH /5/ WERE    
        ADOPTED ASSUMING NEUTRON WIDTH OF 0.2 EV FOR 646.9, 759.7,
        914.0 AND 971.5-EV LEVELS, AND BELOW 20 EV, EVALUATION BY 
        BENJAMIN ET AL. /6/.  THE FISSION WIDTHS OF LOW-LYING 4   
        LEVELS WERE REPLACED WITH THOSE BY MAGUIRE ET AL. /7/.    
          RADIATIVE WIDTH   = 0.037 EV (ASSUMED)                  
          SCATTERING RADIUS = 11.2 FM (ADJUSTED TO 11.6 B         
                              AT 0.0253 EV /8/.                   
        A NEGATIVE RESONANCE AT -1.48 EV WAS ADOPTED AND ITS      
        PARAMETERS WERE ADJUSTED SO AS TO REPRODUCE WELL THE      
        THERMAL CROSS SECTIONS/8/.                                
     UNRESOLVED RESONANCE PARAMETERS : 70 EV - 40 KEV             
        PARAMETERS WERE DETERMINED WITH A FITTING CODE ASREP/9/ SO
        AS TO REPRODUCE THE FISSION CROSS SECTION OF MAGUIRE ET   
        AL. /7/, AND THE TOTAL AND CAPTURE CROSS SECTIONS CALCU-  
        LATED WITH OPTICAL AND STATISTICAL MODELS.                
          ENERGY INDEPENDENT PARAMETERS:                          
            R=9.221 FM, S0=0.9E-4, S2=0.92E-4, WG=0.04 EV.        
          ENERGY DEPENDENT PARAMETERS AT 1 KEV:                   
            S1=3.06E-4, WF=0.00244 EV, D=11.98 EV.                
                                                                  
     CALCULATED 2200M/S CROSS SECTIONS AND RESONANCE INTEGRALS.   
                            2200 M/SEC      RES. INTEG.           
             TOTAL           27.20  B            -                
             ELASTIC         11.06  B            -                
             FISSION          1.037 B          13.2 B             
             CAPTURE         15.10  B         661   B             
                                                                  
MF=3  NEUTRON CROSS SECTIONS                                      
     BELOW 40 KEV, CROSS SECTIONS WERE REPRESENTED WITH RESONANCE 
     PARAMETERS.                                                  
                                                                  
  MT=1,2,4,51-62,91,102,251   TOTAL, ELASTIC AND INELASTIC        
     SCATTERING, CAPTURE CROSS SECTIONS AND MU-L                  
        CALCULATED WITH OPTICAL AND STATISTICAL MODEL CODE        
        CASTHY/10/.                                               
        THE SPHERICAL OPTICAL POTENTIAL PARAMETERS (MEV,FM):      
           V  =43.4-0.107*EN,              R  =1.282, A  =0.60    
           WS =6.95-0.339*EN+0.0531*EN**2, RS =1.29,  B  =0.50    
                (DERIVATIVE WOODS-SAXON FORM)                     
           VSO=7.0,                        RSO=1.282, ASO=0.60    
        THIS SET OF POTENTIAL PARAMETERS WAS DETERMINED /11/ TO   
        REPRODUCE WELL THE TOTAL CROSS SECTION OF AM-241 BY       
        PHILLIPS AND HOWE /12/.  THE STRENGTH FUNCTION OF 0.91E-4 
        CALCULATED WITH THIS OMP IS IN VERY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH   
        EXPERIMENTS/8/.                                           
                                                                  
        IN THE STATISTICAL MODEL CALCULATION, COMPETING PROCESSES 
        OF FISSION, (N,2N) AND (N,3N), AND LEVEL                  
        FLUCTUATION WERE CONSIDERED.  THE LEVEL SCHEME OF CM-244  
        WAS TAKEN FROM THE COMPILATION BY SHURSHIKOV /13/:        
              NO.     ENERGY(MEV)        SPIN-PARITY              
             G.S.       0.0                0   +                  
               1        0.04297            2   +                  
               2        0.14235            4   +                  
               3        0.29621            6   +                  
               4        0.50179            8   +                  
               5        0.970              2   +                  
               6        0.98491            0   +                  
               7        1.0208             2   +                  
               8        1.038              2   +                  
               9        1.0402             6   +                  
              10        1.0842             1   +                  
              11        1.1059             1   -                  
              12        1.187              2   +                  
        OVERLAPPING LEVELS ARE ASSUMED ABOVE 1.2 MEV.  THE LEVEL  
        DENSITY PARAMETERS WERE DETERMINED ON THE BASIS OF NUMBERS
        OF EXCITED LEVELS/14/ AND RESONANCE LEVEL SPACING/8/.     
                                 CM-245    CM-244                 
                      A(1/MEV)    30.0      28.0                  
                        T(MEV)    0.391     0.395                 
                      C(1/MEV)    11.288    1.8807                
                      E-X(MEV)    4.0295    4.2893                
       SPIN-CUTOFF(1/MEV**0.5)    31.31     30.17                 
                PAIRING E(MEV)    0.72      1.22                  
                                                                  
        AVERAGE RADIATIVE WIDTH = 0.037 EV AND D = 12 EV          
        WERE USED FOR THE CAPTURE CROSS SECTION CALCULATION.      
                                                                  
  MT=16,17  (N,2N) AND (N,3N) CROSS SECTIONS                      
        CALCULATED WITH THE EVAPORATION MODEL BY PEARLSTEIN /15/. 
        NEUTRON EMISSION CROSS SECTION WAS ASSUMED TO BE (COMPOUND
        NUCLEUS FORMATION CROSS SECTION CALCULATED WITH OPTICAL   
        MODEL - FISSION).                                         
                                                                  
  MT=18 FISSION CROSS SECTION                                     
        BELOW 100 KEV: SMOOTH CURVE BASED ON MAGUIRE ET AL. /7/.  
        100 - 800 KEV: JENDL-2 WAS ADOPTED, WHICH WAS OBTAINED BY 
                       FITTING A SEMI-EMPIRICAL FORMULA TO THE    
                       EXPERIMENTAL DATA OF REF. /5/.             
        0.8 - 8 MEV  : ESTIMATED FROM EXPERIMENTAL DATA/5,16,17/  
        ABOVE 8 MEV  : THE SAME AS JENDL-2.                       
                                                                  
MF=4  ANGULAR DISTRIBUTIONS OF SECONDARY NEUTRONS                 
  MT=2,51-62,91                                                   
        LEGENDRE COEFFICIENTS WERE GIVEN BY THE OPTICAL AND       
        STATISTICAL MODEL CALCULATIONS.                           
  MT=16,17,18                                                     
        ISOTROPIC DISTRIBUTIONS IN THE LABORATORY SYSTEM.         
                                                                  
MF=5  ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS OF SECONDARY NEUTRONS                  
  MT=16,17,91 EVAPORATION SPECTRUM                                
  MT=18    FISSION SPECTRUM ESTIMATED FROM Z**2/A SYSTEMATICS BY  
           SMITH ET AL. /18/ BY ASSUMING E(CF-252) = 2.13 MEV.    
                                                                  
REFERENCES                                                        
 1) IGARASI S. AND NAKAGAWA T.: JAERI-M 7175 (1977).              
 2) NAKAGAWA T.: TO BE PUBLISHED AS JAERI-M REPORT.               
 3) TUTTLE R.J.: INDC(NDS)-107/G+SPECIAL, 29 (1979).              
 4) HOWERTON R.J.: NUCL. SCI. ENG., 62, 438 (1977).               
 5) MOORE M.S. AND KEYWORTH G.A.: PHYS. REV., C3, 1656 (1971).    
 6) BENJAMIN R.W. ET AL.: NUCL. SCI. ENG. 47, 203 (1972).         
 7) MAGUIRE JR.H.T. ET AL.: NUCL. SCI. ENG., 89, 293 (1985).      
 8) MUGHABGHAB S.F.: "NEUTRON CROSS SECTIONS, VOL.1, PART B",     
    ACADEMIC PRESS (1984).                                        
 9) KIKUCHI Y.: PRIVATE COMMUNICATION.                            
10) IGARASI S.: J. NUCL. SCI. TECHNOL., 12, 67 (1975).            
11) IGARASI S. AND NAKAGAWA T.: JAERI-M 8342 (1979).              
12) PHILLIPS T.W. AND HOWE R.E.: NUCL. SCI. ENG. 69, 375 (1979).  
13) SHURSHIKOV E.N.: NUCL. DATA SHEETS, 49, 785 (1986).           
14) ENSDF, EVALUATED NUCLEAR STRUCTURE DATA FILE, AS OF JAN. 1989.
15) PEARLSTEIN S.: NUCL. SCI. ENG., 23, 238 (1965).               
16) FOMUSHKIN E.F. ET AL.: SOV. J. NUCL. PHYS., 31, 19 (1980).    
17) VOROTNIKOV P.E. ET AL.: SOV. AT. ENERGY, 57, 504 (1985).      
18) SMITH A.B. ET AL.: ANL/NDM-50 (1979).