Abstract
The excitation function of the reaction 232 Th(n, 5nγ) 228 Th from 29 to 42 MeV has been measured for the first time at the quasi-monoenergetic neutron beam of the UCL cyclotron CYCLONE employing the 7 Li(p,n) source reaction. Taking advantage of the good energy resolution of the planar High Purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors, prompt γ-ray spectroscopy was used to detect the γ rays resulting from the decay of excited states of nuclei created by the (n,xn) reactions. The neutron beam was characterized by a combination of time of flight measurements carried out using a liquid scintillation detector and a 238 U fission ionization chamber and fluence measurements carried out using a proton recoil telescope. The preliminary results are compared with calculations performed using the TALYS-0.72 code.
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