https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714605002
A unified understanding of (γ, n) and (n, γ) reactions and direct neutron-multiplicity sorting
1 Department of Physics, Konan University, Okamoto 8-9-1, Kobe 659-8501, Japan
2 Institut d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus de la Plaine, CP-226, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
3 University of Oslo, Department of Physics, 0316 Oslo, Norway
4 ELI-NP, “Horia Hulubei” National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), 30 Reactorului, 077125 Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
5 University of Bucharest, Post Office Box MG-11, 077125 Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
6 Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Physics, Moscow 119991, Russia
7 Lomonosov Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow 119991, Russia
a e-mail: hiro@konan-u.ac.jp
Published online: 13 September 2017
We discuss the γ-ray strength function toward a unified understanding of (γ,n) and (n,γ) reactions and propose a novel technique of direct neutron-multiplicity sorting to resolve the long-standing discrepancy between the Livermore and Scalya data of partial photoneutron cross sections.
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