# K-41(n, gamma)K-42 thermal and resonance integral cross section measurements

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Journal
0033-8230
Publisher
Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag
Publication Date
Keywords
• K-41
• K-42
• Neutron Activation
• Thermal Cross Section
• Resonance Integral
• Gamma Ray Spectrometry

## Abstract

We measured the K-41 thermal neutron absorption and resonance integral cross sections after the irradiation of KNO3 samples near the core of the IEA-R1 IPEN pool-type research reactor. Bare and cadmium-covered targets were irradiated in pairs with Au-Al alloy flux-monitors. The residual activities were measured by gamma-ray spectroscopy with a HPGe detector, with special care to avoid the K-42 decay beta(-) emission effects on the spectra. The gamma-ray self-absorption was corrected with the help of MCNP simulations. We applied the Westcott formalism in the average neutron flux determination and calculated the depression coefficients for thermal and epithermal neutrons due to the sample thickness with analytical approximations. We obtained 1.57(4) and 1.02(4) b, for thermal and resonance integral cross sections, respectively, with correlation coefficient equal to 0.39.

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