SUBENT 12874001 19850422 00001287400100001 BIB 13 31 1287400100002 INSTITUTE (1USAORL) 1287400100003 REFERENCE (J,NSE,89,79,8501) 1287400100004 AUTHOR (R.L.MACKLIN) 1287400100005 TITLE NEUTRON CAPURE MEASUREMENTS ON FISSION-PRODUCT 107-PD. 1287400100006 FACILITY (LINAC) ORELA FACILITY AT ORNL. 1287400100007 INC-SOURCE (PHOTO)-WATER MODERATED 1287400100008 SAMPLE THE SAMPLE WAS PACKAGED IN A 0.1 MM THICK PLASTIC 1287400100009 ENVELOPE AND WAS 15.54+-0.05 PERCENT ISOTOPIC PURITY.1287400100010 NATURAL PALLADIUM SAMPLE WAS RUN INTERMIITTENTLY IN 1287400100011 THE LOWER ENERGY RANGE. 1287400100012 METHOD (TOF) TIME OF FLIGHT 40127 MM.PATH LENGTH. 1287400100013 THE TIME OF FLIGHT ENERGY SCALE WAS CALIBRATED 1287400100014 WITH ALUMINUM RESONANCES AT 5.903 AND 1094 KEV. 1287400100015 DETECTOR (SCIN) A PAIR OF NONHYDROGENOUS LIQUID SCINTILLATORS. 1287400100016 THE DETECTION EFFICIENCY WAS DETERMINED BY THE 1287400100017 SATURATED RESONANCE METHOD. 1287400100018 MONITOR LI-6 GLASS SCINTILLATOR WAS USED AS A NEUTRON FLUX 1287400100019 MONITOR. 1287400100020 CORRECTION THE DATA WERE CORRECTED FOR- 1287400100021 1. ELECTRONIC DEAD TIME. 1287400100022 2. MEASURED ENVIRONMENTAL BAKGROUND. 1287400100023 3. BEAM-DEPENDENT BACKGROUND. 1287400100024 4. GAMMA-RAY ENERGY LOSS IN THE SAMPLE. 1287400100025 A B-10 FILTER WAS USED TO ABSORB THE NEUTRONS FROM 1287400100026 EARLIER PULSES WHICH WOULD HAVE REACHED THE SAMPLE 1287400100027 AT THE SAME TIME AS THOSE BEING STUDIED. 1287400100028 STATUS DATA TAKEN FROM TABLES 2,3 AND 4 FROM THE PRE-PRINT 1287400100029 SUBMITTED TO NUC.SCI.ENG. 1287400100030 (APRVD) R.L.MACKLIN, 84/6/19. 1287400100031 HISTORY (840514C) 1287400100032 (850422A) REFERENCE UPDATE. 1287400100033 ENDBIB 31 0 1287400100034 NOCOMMON 0 0 1287400100035 ENDSUBENT 34 0 1287400199999 SUBENT 12874003 19840514 00001287400300001 BIB 3 21 1287400300002 REACTION (46-PD-107(N,G)46-PD-108,,SIG,,AV) 1287400300003 ANALYSIS THE AVERAGE PD-107 CAPTURE CROSS SECTIONS WERE DERIVED 1287400300004 FROM THE FISSION PRODUCT SAMPLE DATA BY SUBTRACTING 1287400300005 THE 104,105,106,108,110PD CAPTURE YIELDS WITH THE 1287400300006 HELP OF THE LINEAR UNSCRAMBLING MATRIX OBTAINED BY 1287400300007 THE AUTHOR PREVIOUSLY-SEE NUC.SCI.ENG.,71,182,1979. 1287400300008 ABOVE 2600 EV THE ENRICHED STABLE ISOTOPE CAPTURE 1287400300009 DATA(NUCL.SCI.ENG.,86,362,1984) WERE LINEARLY 1287400300010 COMBINED WITH THE FISSION PRODUCT DATA TO GIVE THE 1287400300011 NET CAPTURE YIELD DUE TO PD-107 ALONE. 1287400300012 ERR-ANALYS (ERR-S) STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTIES. 1287400300013 (ERR-1) SYSTEMATIC UNCERTAINTY DUE TO SAMPLE RELATED 1287400300014 CORRECTIONS ARE- 1287400300015 1. NON-LINEAR NEUTRON ABSORPTION,SCATTERING. 1287400300016 2. 2.4 PERCENT DUE TO NORMALIZATION. 1287400300017 3. 2.4 PERCENT DUE TO SUBTRACTION OF RUNS 1287400300018 MADE WITH DIFFFERENT SAMPLES AND THE 1287400300019 FLUX SHAPE UNCERTAINTIES. 1287400300020 THE UNCERTAINTIES ARE GIVEN AT THE 68 PERCENT 1287400300021 PROBABILITY LEVEL OR ONE STANDARD DEVIATION OF A 1287400300022 GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION. 1287400300023 ENDBIB 21 0 1287400300024 NOCOMMON 0 0 1287400300025 DATA 5 17 1287400300026 EN-MIN EN-MAX DATA ERR-S ERR-1 1287400300027 KEV KEV MB MB MB 1287400300028 3. 4. 3067. 40. 137. 1287400300029 4. 6. 2740. 36. 105. 1287400300030 6. 8. 2481. 34. 83. 1287400300031 8. 10. 2317. 32. 68. 1287400300032 10. 15. 1968. 28. 54. 1287400300033 15. 20. 1826. 26. 46. 1287400300034 20. 30. 1531. 22. 36. 1287400300035 30. 40. 1273. 18. 28. 1287400300036 40. 60. 1082. 16. 22. 1287400300037 60. 80. 918. 14. 18. 1287400300038 80. 100. 798. 12. 16. 1287400300039 100. 150. 639. 10. 14. 1287400300040 150. 200. 532. 9. 11. 1287400300041 200. 300. 460. 8. 7. 1287400300042 300. 400. 298. 6. 4. 1287400300043 400. 500. 155. 6. 1. 1287400300044 500. 600. 114. 6. 0. 1287400300045 ENDDATA 19 0 1287400300046 ENDSUBENT 45 0 1287400399999