Re: values of thermal neutron cross sections for gold and cobalt

From: Florian (florian.sommerer@cern.ch)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2008 - 15:42:08 CET

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    Dear Luca,

    you can print (to the *.out file) detailed information about low energy
    neutrons by setting a printing flag in WHAT4 of the LOW-NEUT card. A
    detailed explanation about the output can be found in the FLUKA manual
    in chapter 9.1 .

    Best regards,
    Florian

    Zanini Luca wrote:
    > Dear All,
    >
    > I would like to know the values of the thermal neutron cross sections
    > for gold and cobalt used in FLUKA, that is, in the first energy bin with
    > upper limit 4.1400E-10 GeV. I am trying to estimate by a simple
    > calculation the systematic corrections due to self shielding and elastic
    > scattering in a foil activation measurement. By using the reference 98.7
    > barn cross section for gold I get a "negative" (5%) correction, unless I
    > am making some mistake.
    >
    > It would be even better to have the values for all the 72 energy bins,
    > to estimate also the effect for epithermal neutrons.
    >
    > Thanks, Luca
    >

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