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INTERPOLATION OF EXPERIMENTAL CROSS SECTIONS FOR ELASTIC SCATTERING OF NEUTRONS FROM IRON

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:4299727
A method of interpolation between experimental points such that differential cross sections for tbe elastic scattering of neutrons may be obtained at intervals of 0.5 Mev throughout tbe energy range 1.0 to 10.0 . Mev has been developed. The theory involved in this interpolation simply assuunes that the energy variation of each coefficient in the Legendre polynomial expansion of the differential cross section is a smooth function of the energy. A graph of each polynomial coefficient was obtained as a function of energy. The coefficients for the desired energies were chosen and a Legendre polynominal synthesis then gave the desired angular distributions. (W.D.M.)
Research Organization:
Curtiss-Wright Corp. Research Div., Quehanna, Penna.
NSA Number:
NSA-12-012822
OSTI ID:
4299727
Report Number(s):
CWR-496
Country of Publication:
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Language:
English