Neutron absorption barns for thermal neutrons and 60.9 barns for resonance integral.
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Despite the constant area under resonance a resonance integral, which determines the absorption, increases with increasing target temperature.
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Unusually for an isotope with even mass number, 232 U has a significant neutron absorption fission ( thermal neutrons, resonance integral ) as well as for neutron capture ( thermal, resonance integral ).
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Unusually for an isotope with even mass number, 232 U has a significant neutron absorption fission ( thermal neutrons, resonance integral ) as well as for neutron capture ( thermal, resonance integral ).
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Two of the most commonly specified measures are the cross-section for thermal neutron absorption, and resonance integral which considers the contribution of absorption peaks at certain neutron energies specific to a particular nuclide, usually above the thermal range, but encountered as neutron moderation slows the neutron down from an original high energy.
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Some 155 Eu is also produced by successive neutron capture on 153 Eu ( nonradioactive, 350 barns thermal, 1500 resonance integral, yield is about 5 times as great as 155 Eu ) and 154 Eu ( half-life 8.6 years, 1400 barns thermal, 1600 resonance integral, fission yield is extremely small because beta decay stops at 154 Sm ); however the differing cross sections mean that both 155 Eu and 154 Eu are destroyed faster than they are produced.
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Some 155 Eu is also produced by successive neutron capture on 153 Eu ( nonradioactive, 350 barns thermal, 1500 resonance integral, yield is about 5 times as great as 155 Eu ) and 154 Eu ( half-life 8.6 years, 1400 barns thermal, 1600 resonance integral, fission yield is extremely small because beta decay stops at 154 Sm ); however the differing cross sections mean that both 155 Eu and 154 Eu are destroyed faster than they are produced.