FAST NEUTRON PHYSICS

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• Preface

• Opening address

• 1. Scattering and Energy Spectrum

• Measurement of double differential neutron emission cross sections at 14 MeV

• Fast neutron scattering cross sections at small angles and optical model parameters

• Hadron dependence of collective excitations and neutron scattering to collective levels

• Measurement of double differential cross sections of secondary neutrons in the incident energy range 9 to 13 Me V

• Secondary neutron double differential cross sections from ²⁰⁹Bi at 14.2 MeV

• 2. Nuclear Fission

• Neutron emission in nuclear fission

• Measurement of the prompt neutron spectrum of ²³⁸U fission

• Study of prompt neutron spectrum in low energy portion for ²⁵²Cf and ²⁴⁸Cm spontaneous fission

• Behavior of prompt γ-ray emission in cold fragmentations of binary fission of ²⁵²Cf

• Recent progress in fission cross section measurements

• Mass distribution in 11.3 MeV neutron-induced fission of ²³⁸U

• 3.γ-ray Spectroscopy and (n, γ) Reaction Mechanism

• Mechanism of (n,γ) reactions at low neutron energies

• The test of nuclear models using E2 transitions for rare-earth deformed nuclei

• Study of high energy γ-rays in fast neutron capture reactions

• Thermal neutron capture γ-ray spectroscopy in light and medium nuclei

• Comments on applications of Doppler shift attenuation analysis in fast neutron experiments

• Measurements of neutron capture cross sections of Wolfram and Thulium

• 4. Nuclear Theory

• Calculation of the nuclear reactions in terms of the two-component exciton model with realistic state densities

• Comparisons of non-relativistic and relativistic phenomenological and microscopic optical potentials for neutron induced reactions at low and medium energies

• Theoretical research on 13 MeV N-D break-up processes

• A semi-classical theory of multi-step nuclear reaction processes

• Neutron scattering analysis with microscopic optical model potentials

• 5. Activation Cross Sections

• Reaction cross section measurements in 8-13 MeV neutron energy range

• Study of fast neutron cross sections at JAERI tandem accelerator

• Absolute measurement of cross sections of ²⁷Al(n, α)²⁴Na and ⁵⁶Fe(n, p)⁵⁶Mn at 14.6 MeV

• Recent radiochemical studies of fast neutron induced reactions

• Measurement and evaluation of activation cross section

• 6. Nuclear Reactions

• Nuclear studies at TUNL using polarized neutron beams

• Double differential neutron emission cross sections of (p, n) reactions on ⁵⁹Co and Mo isotopes

• Neutron shell effect in the (n, 2n) reaction cross sections at 14.6 MeV

• 7. Intermediate Energy and Others

• Precision total cross sections and the optical model at intermediate energy

• Nucleon radiative capture and the inverse reaction at intermediate energies

• Progress of nuclear data work of CNDC

• Summary Talk

• Closing Address

• List of participants