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Calculation of Neutron Radiative Capture Cross Sections

Lawrence Dresner

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 1 / Number 2 / May 1956 / Pages 103-107

Technical Paper / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE56-A17514

Several methods of calculating radiative capture cross sections are compared, and numerical results are given for U238. The importance of neutron angular momenta higher than zero is found to be large at quite low energies.