Measurement of secondary neutron emission double-differential cross sections for 9Be induced by 21.65 ± 0.07 MeV neutrons

Abstract

The neutron emission double-differential cross sections (DDX) of 9Be was measured at an incident neutron energy of 21.65MeV, using the multi-detector fast neutron time-of-flight (TOF) spectrometer on HI-13 Tandem Accelerator at the China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE). The data were deduced by comparing the measured TOF spectra with the calculated ones using a realistic Monte-Carlo simulation. The DDX were normalized to n–p scattering cross sections which are a neutron scattering standard. The results of the elastic scattering angular distributions (DX) and the secondary neutron emission DDX at 25 different angles from 15deg to 145deg were presented. Meanwhile, a theoretical model based on the unified Hauser-Feshbach and exciton model for light nuclei was used to describe the double-differential cross sections of n+9Be, and the theoretical calculation results were compared with the measured cross sections.