PT Journal
AU n_TOF Collaboration (Michalopoulou, Vea
   Babiano-Suarez, V
   Caballero, L
   Domingo-Pardo, C
   Ladarescu, I
   Tain, JL
TI Measurement of the neutron-induced fission cross section of Th-230 at the CERN n_TOF facility
SO Physical Review C
JI Phys. Rev. C
PY 2023
BP 014616
EP 15pp
VL 108
IS 1
DI 10.1103/PhysRevC.108.014616
LA English
AB The neutron-induced fission cross section of Th-230 has been measured at the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF located at CERN. The experiment was performed at the experimental area EAR-1 with a neutron flight path of 185 m, using Micromegas detectors for the detection of the fission fragments. The Th-230(n, f ) cross section was determined relative to the U-235(n, f ) one, covering the energy range from the fission threshold up to 400 MeV. The results from the present work are compared with existing cross-section datasets and the observed discrepancies are discussed and analyzed. Finally, using the code EMPIRE 3.2.3 a theoretical study, based on the statistical model, was performed leading to a satisfactory reproduction of the experimental results with the proper tuning of the respective parameters, while for incident neutron energy beyond 200 MeV the fission of( 230)Th was described by Monte Carlo simulations.
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