Open AccessMETHODS FOR APPLYING TRANSMISSION AND /eta/-vs-E CORRECTIONS IN THE DETERMINATION OF /eta/$sub 2200$ BY THE MACKLIN-deSAUSSURE EXPERIMENT
Author(s) -
E.C. Halbert,
B.F. Maskewitz,
R.L. Wynn
Publication year - 1959
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/4135103
Subject(s) - uranium , plutonium , transmission (telecommunications) , neutron , nuclear physics , physics , energy (signal processing) , manganese , computational physics , chemistry , computer science , quantum mechanics , telecommunications , organic chemistry
A careful determination of /sub 2200/ from results of the Macklin- deSaussure manganese-bath experiment involves corrections for (1) the weak but nonzero transmission of subcadmium neutrons through the uranium or plutonium foils and (2) the small variation of with energy in the subcadmium region. The derivation of a single general expression for applying both these corrections is presented, and two lBM 704 codes (MTC and GTC) which were written especially to facilitate the numerical evaluation of this combined correction factor are described. (auth