Neutron Activation - General
This page includes evaluated data files for neutron activation
cross-sections for general use.
See also
Neutron Activation for Dosimetry
and Thermal Neutron Activation Cross
Sections.
RNAL- Reference Neutron Activation Library
Evaluated data for 255 important neutron-induced reactions leading to radioactive
products, selected from various libraries and reformatted to ENDF-6 format.
The full library, individual reactions and comparison plots with experimental data
from EXFOR are available online or on CD-ROM.
FENDL/A-2.0
Comprehensive neutron cross section library for 13006
neutron activation reactions with 739 target nuclides from H to Cm in the
incident energy range up to 20 MeV, for fusion (and other) applications.
The data are in ENDF format with some
modifications. Compared to the previous version FENDL/A-1.1, many nuclides and
reactions were added or revised. The evaluations were selected from major
activation libraries including EAF-4.1, ADL-3, JENDL/A-3.2 and others.
Available on magnetic tape or by FTP or
WWW file transfer.
Summary documentation: IAEA-NDS-173.
Plots of the FENDL/A-2.0 activation cross sections in comparison with experimental
data retrieved from EXFOR are available online.
Interactive plotting with the ZVView package is provided.
FENDL/A-2.0 Processed Files
(FENDL2/A-MCNP, FENDL2/A-VITJ_E, FENDL2/A-VITJ_FLAT). Pointwise cross sections
(any resonance parameters contained in the original data files were converted to
cross sections) for 13006 activation reactions for 739 target nuclides
(including
metastable states), processed for use with the Monte Carlo neutron/photon
transport code MCNP, and as VITAMIN-J 175 multigroup data weighted with the
VITAMIN-E neutron weighting spectrum and with a constant (flat) weighting
spectrum. Available on magnetic tape or by FTP or
WWW file transfer.
Summary documentation: IAEA-NDS-174.
EAF-2
("European Activation File""). Neutron cross-section
data for many thousand reactions. At present not available from IAEA.
See J. Kopecky, D. Nierop, Contents of EAF-2.
Report ECN-1-91-053 (1991).
ADL-3
Russian Activation Data Library, evaluated neutron activation
cross-sections of 20049 excitation functions. Documentation:
O.T. Grudzevich, A.V. Zeleneckij, A.V. Ignatjuk, A.B. Pashchenko,
Catalogue of ADL-3 library, in: Yadernye Konstanty, issue 1993
(3-4). Copies available costfree. (180 pages of index, self-explanatory,
with an introduction in Russian, abstract in
English.) Data library available on tape.
Summary documentation: IAEA-NDS-137.
UENDL/NAA
USSR Evaluated Nuclear Data Library for Neutron Activation
Analysis of 1988, by V.M. Bychkov et al. It contains recommended
values for activation cross-sections of 14,5 MeV energy neutrons
and neutrons from U-235 and Cf-252 fission; for resonance
integrals of capture, aborption and fission reactions; for
thermal neutron capture and absorption reaction cross-sections;
for effective resonance energy values; for the main gamma-ray
energies of neutron capture and for their absolute intensities;
for half-lives and abundance for all known nuclides. Available
on a set of two low density PC diskettes.
Documentation: IAEA-NDS-125 by A.B. Pashchenko.
ACTIV87
Fast Neutron Activation Cross-Section File by
V.N. Manokhin, A.B. Pashchenko, V.I. Pljaskin, V.M. Bychkov, V.G.
Pronjaev. This library contains evaluated cross-sections for 206
important fast- neutron induced activation reactions in the
energy range from threshold up to 20 MeV. This file contains the
numerical data of the graphical plots that had been published in
the IAEA Handbook on Nuclear Activation Data (K. Okamoto, ed.),
IAEA Technical Report 273 (1987), pp 305-411. A brief
documentation of this data library is given in the report
IAEA-NDS-96 (O. Schwerer, ed.).
ENDF/B-5 Activation file (Rev. 2)
Neutron activation cross-sections
and radioactive decay data for 127 nuclides from 1-H-3 to
96-Cm-242.
Summary documentation: IAEA-NDS-38, Rev. 1
ACTL-82
LLNL evaluated neutron activation cross-section library of
1982, in ENDL Transmittal format.
Summary of contents: IAEA-NDS-55
Summary of format: IAEA-NDS-53
ACTL
LLNL evaluated neutron activation cross-section library
1978, in ENDF/B format. Evaluation techniques, reaction index
and format description by M.A. Gardner and R.J. Howerton, see
UCRL-50400, vol. 18 (1978).
RCN-2.CP
Evaluated neutron cross-section library for 13 corrosion
products, cover-gas nuclides and other nuclides in the primary
cooling circuit of a fast power reactor, by H. Gruppelaar et al.,
ECN Netherlands, 1982. In KEDAK format.
Summary documentation: IAEA-NDS-68.
In the following, some data compilations are listed which are not
available on magnetic tape. See the quoted references.
Kabina file - A file of reference data for multiple-element thermal
neutron activation analysis. L.P. Kabina et al. (Leningrad),
INDC(CCP)-216, Dec. 1983. Hard copy only, not on tape. (Based
on decay data from ENSDF and thermal (n,gamma) cross-sections
from BNL handbooks.).
14-MeV neutron activation cross-sections, see report ANL/NDM-89
(April 1985).
Data for 14-MeV neutron activation analysis, Z. Bödy, J. Csikai. -
See Handbook on Nuclear Activation Data, IAEA Technical Report
Series No. 273, Vienna 1987, p. 261-304.
Index of neutron-induced gamma-production data in ENDF-formatted
files, see report INDC(NDS)-189 by O. Schwerer, H.D. Lemmel
(March 1987).
14-MeV neutron activation analysis, sensitivities and interferences,
see R. Pepelnik, J. of Radioanal. and Nucl. Chem. 112 (1987) 435.