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Low Energy Neutron Cross Sections of Dy164

R. SHER, S. TASSAN, E. V. WEINSTOCK, A. HELLSTEN

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 11 / Number 4 / December 1961 / Pages 369-376

Technical Paper / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A26038

The total and activation cross sections of Dy164 have been measured in the energy range 0.02 to 2.0 ev. The cross sections, which are not 1/υ above 0.1 ev, are well represented by the single level Breit-Wigner formula for a bound level with parameters E0 = −1.89 ± 0.04 ev; Γn0 = 0.041 ± 0.001 ev; Γ = 0.166 ± 0.004 ev; and σ0 Γ2 = 4280 ± 100 barns ev.2