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Diffraction Effects in Nuclear Cross Sections

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Some of the most noticeable resonance structures in the energy dependence of nuclear cross sections and other reaction characteristics, for example, the kinetic energy and angular anisotropy, of fission fragments are correlated for different nuclei irrespective of the parity of their atomic number and mass number. The resonance structures in the neutron cross sections can also correlate with the structure of the cross sections of photonuclear reactions with equal wave length of the neutron and γ radiation. These correlations could be due to the diffraction of waves by the spatial structures of a nucleus, for example, isolated nuclear shells.

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Anikin, G.V., Anikin, V.G. Diffraction Effects in Nuclear Cross Sections. Atomic Energy 94, 265–270 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024750104818

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