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’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
No electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged by the chimney with care
With the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
Thomas W. Phillips, Robert E. Howe
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 69 | Number 3 | March 1979 | Pages 375-377
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A19955
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The total neutron cross section of 241Am was determined from transmission data obtained at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory 100-MeV electron Linac for the neutron energy range from 0.5 to 25 MeV Neutron energies were measured using the time-of-flight technique. The transmission of a 12C sample was measured simultaneously to test the precision of this experiment. The measured 241Am cross section is compared with the evaluated data files, and discrepancies are noted.