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R. L. Macklin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 79 | Number 1 | September 1981 | Pages 118-123
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A19048
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Individual resonance parameters are fitted to thorium neutron capture data up to 10 keV. The ENDF/B-V resonance parameters (given up to 4 keV) do not describe these data well. An average radiation width Γγ = 25.5 ± 1.2 meV is derived together with fitted strength functions 104S0 = (0.86 ± 0.10), 104S1 = (1.48 ± 0.07), 104S2 = (1.12 ± 0.06), and Dl=0 = 14.7 ± 0.5.
