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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 88 | Number 2 | October 1984 | Pages 129-142
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A28397
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Neutron capture by a sample enriched in 41K and by a natural potassium sample (93.26% 39K) was measured at the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator as a function of neutron time of flight over a 40-m flight path. Resonance peaks were fitted by a least-squares fitting program to obtain Breit-Wigner resonance parameters. The energy range extended to all resonances below 153 keV. Corresponding average capture at a temperature typical of stars, kT = 30 keV, is calculated as (11.8 ± 0.4) mb for 39K and (22.0 ± 0.7) mb for 41K.