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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 71 | Number 2 | August 1979 | Pages 205-208
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A20412
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The efficiency of a 0.5-mm-thick 6Li glass scintillation monitor was determined above the “1/v” region by comparison with the counting rate of a ten-plate 235U fission ionization chamber in a neutron beam from the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator. The chief difference in derived 6Li(n,α) cross sections from the ENDF/B-V evaluation is a slightly greater width (∼8%) of the prominent resonance peaking near 240 keV and a higher cross section in the wings. The steep rise in efficiency from 3500 to 5000 keV is attributed primarily to the 16O(n, α) reaction.