Measurement of neutron capture and fission cross sections of ^sup 236^U

The cross sections for radiative capture and fission for ^sup 236^U in the neutron energy ranges 1-2000 eV and 1-1000 eV, respectively, have been measured. The measurements were performed on a flight baseline 5.2 m of the FAKEL linear electron accelerator at the National Research Center Kurchatov Institute using a method based on measuring the distribution of the number of particles emitted by an excited nucleus with simultaneous measurement of the energy of each particle. The spectrum of the neutrons incident on a sample was measured by detecting the reaction ... . The cross sections were normalized with respect to the resonance in ^sup 236^U at 5.45 eV. The data obtained are compared with the results of other experiments and evaluated data. (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae and non-USASCII text omitted)