Abstract
Cross sections for the following neutron interactions were obtained for 54Fe in the few-MeV incident-energy range with resolutions of 50–100 keV: total interaction from ∼0.5 to 4 MeV, elastic scattering from 1.2 to 4 MeV, inelastic scattering from 2 to 4 MeV for excitation energies up to 3 MeV, and inelastic-scattering γ-ray production from 1.4 to 3.6 MeV for transitions corresponding to the deexcitation of levels up to 3 MeV. The results are mutually consistent within experimental errors. A spherical optical-statistical model describes the energy-averaged behavior of these experiments reasonably well, although slight evidence for direct-reaction strength is exhibited by the angular distributions of neutrons scattered to the 1.408 MeV, 2 +, level.
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