Abstract
Neutron-induced reactions on 35Cl have recently been measured and analyzed in a Hauser-Feshbach framework at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Particular focus has been applied to the “fast” energy range above 100 keV, where these reactions become important for applications like CLYC (Cs2LiYCl6:Ce) detector characterization and the development of molten chloride fast reactors. However, challenges to applying a purely statistical analysis to this mass range have presented themselves in the form of cross section fluctuations and deviations due to low-mass structure. In this paper, these challenges and their current solutions will be highlighted, as well as preliminary extensions of the analysis to neighboring isotopes and future plans to extend the measurements down to thermal energies.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 02005 |
| Journal | EPJ Web of Conferences |
| Volume | 322 |
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| State | Published - Mar 14 2025 |
| Event | 7th International Workshop on Compound-Nuclear Reactions and Related Topics, CNR 2024 - Vienna, Austria Duration: Jul 8 2024 → Jul 12 2024 |
Funding
This work was supported by the Nuclear Criticality Safety Program, funded and managed by the National Nuclear Security Administration for the Department of Energy. Funding was also provided in part by the DOE’s Advanced Simulation and Computing Program. This work was carried out under the auspices of the National Nuclear Security Administration of the US Department of Energy at Los Alamos National Laboratory under Contract No. 89233218CNA000001. The authors would like to thank Josef Svoboda of LANL for providing the MCNP neutron spectra.