2004/09/02 by S. V. Surya Narayan, Rajesh S. Gowda, R. S. Gowda +4
Chemical Engineering · Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Molten salt chemistry and electrochemical processes #Nuclear Materials and Properties #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Nuclear reactor physics and engineering #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.nucl-th/0409005
revtex.4 file with eight .eps figures
openalex publication_date 2004/09/02 · arxiv created 2004/09/03 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Theoretical study of systematics of neutron scattering cross sections on various materials for neutron energies up to several hundred MeV are of practical importance. In this paper, we analysed various cross sections of neutron-nucleus (n-N) scattering for several systems in the energy range of 50-250 MeV, predicted by the optical model using Koning-Delaroche potentials. We perform the Ramsauer model parameterization of total scattering cross sections and derive the systematics of the Ramsauer model parameters. We propose an empirical approach to successfully predict the energy dependence of total, shape elastic, reaction cross sections and zero degree scattering angular distributions. We demonstrate that owing to two conditions, only two out of these four cross sections need to be fitted empirically. Further, we modified the Wick's approximation for the zero degree angular distributions and use this approach for estimating various cross sections for any nucleus from Aluminum to Lead.