The Baghdad Atlas: A relational database of inelastic neutron-scattering $(n,n'γ)$ data

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Autori principali: Hurst, A. M., Bernstein, L. A., Kawano, T., Lewis, A. M., Song, K.
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author Hurst, A. M.
Bernstein, L. A.
Kawano, T.
Lewis, A. M.
Song, K.
author_facet Hurst, A. M.
Bernstein, L. A.
Kawano, T.
Lewis, A. M.
Song, K.
contents A relational database has been developed based on the original ($n,n'γ$) work carried out by A. M. Demidov $et$ $al$., at the Nuclear Research Institute in Baghdad, Iraq [$"Atlas$ $of$ $Gamma$-$Ray$ $Spectra$ $from$ $the$ $Inelastic$ $Scattering$ $of$ $Reactor$ $Fast$ $Neutrons"$, Nuclear Research Institute, Baghdad, Iraq (Moscow, Atomizdat 1978)] for 105 independent measurements comprising 76 elemental samples of natural composition and 29 isotopically-enriched samples. The information from this Atlas includes: $γ$-ray energies and relative intensities; nuclide and level data corresponding to the residual nucleus and meta data associated with the target sample that allows for the extraction of the flux-weighted ($n,n'γ$) cross sections for a given transition relative to a defined value. The optimized angular-distribution-corrected fast-neutron flux-weighted partial $γ$-ray cross section for the production of the 846.8-keV $2^{+}_{1} \rightarrow 0^{+}_{\rm gs}$ $γ$-ray transition in $^{56}$Fe, determined to be $\langle σ_γ \rangle = 143(29)$ mb, is used for this purpose. However, different values for the adopted cross section can be readily implemented to accommodate user preference based on revised determinations of this quantity. The Atlas ($n,n'γ$) data has been compiled into a series of CSV-style ASCII data sets and a suite of Python scripts have been developed to build and install the database locally. The database can then be accessed directly through the SQLite engine, or using alternative methods such as the Jupyter Notebook Python-browser interface. Several examples exploiting different interaction methodologies are distributed with the complete software package.
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spellingShingle The Baghdad Atlas: A relational database of inelastic neutron-scattering $(n,n'γ)$ data
Hurst, A. M.
Bernstein, L. A.
Kawano, T.
Lewis, A. M.
Song, K.
Applied Physics
Nuclear Experiment
A relational database has been developed based on the original ($n,n'γ$) work carried out by A. M. Demidov $et$ $al$., at the Nuclear Research Institute in Baghdad, Iraq [$"Atlas$ $of$ $Gamma$-$Ray$ $Spectra$ $from$ $the$ $Inelastic$ $Scattering$ $of$ $Reactor$ $Fast$ $Neutrons"$, Nuclear Research Institute, Baghdad, Iraq (Moscow, Atomizdat 1978)] for 105 independent measurements comprising 76 elemental samples of natural composition and 29 isotopically-enriched samples. The information from this Atlas includes: $γ$-ray energies and relative intensities; nuclide and level data corresponding to the residual nucleus and meta data associated with the target sample that allows for the extraction of the flux-weighted ($n,n'γ$) cross sections for a given transition relative to a defined value. The optimized angular-distribution-corrected fast-neutron flux-weighted partial $γ$-ray cross section for the production of the 846.8-keV $2^{+}_{1} \rightarrow 0^{+}_{\rm gs}$ $γ$-ray transition in $^{56}$Fe, determined to be $\langle σ_γ \rangle = 143(29)$ mb, is used for this purpose. However, different values for the adopted cross section can be readily implemented to accommodate user preference based on revised determinations of this quantity. The Atlas ($n,n'γ$) data has been compiled into a series of CSV-style ASCII data sets and a suite of Python scripts have been developed to build and install the database locally. The database can then be accessed directly through the SQLite engine, or using alternative methods such as the Jupyter Notebook Python-browser interface. Several examples exploiting different interaction methodologies are distributed with the complete software package.
title The Baghdad Atlas: A relational database of inelastic neutron-scattering $(n,n'γ)$ data
topic Applied Physics
Nuclear Experiment
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11140