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Nuclear Physics

Volume 82, Issue 1, July 1966, Pages 16-32
Nuclear Physics

Neutron cross sections of the boron isotopes for energies between 10 and 500 keV

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Abstract

The total neutron cross sections of 10B, 11B, C and O and the absorption cross section of 10B have been measured for neutron energies between 10 and 500 keV. The 10B absorption cross section does bot deviate appreciably from a 1/ν dependence in this interval of neutron energies. The present values of the 10B absorption cross section are systematically larger than measured values of the 10B(n, α) cross section; but the evidence presented indicates that this excess cannot be explained in terms of other neutron-absorbing reactions.

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