Evaluation of neutron nuclear data on tellurium isotopes

Shibata, Keiichi

Although JENDL-4.0 was released in 2010, the high-energy cross sections of about 40 FP nuclides were not re-examined due to the time limit. Tellurium is one of such data which were not revised in the high-energy region. Considering the significance of the activation cross sections of tellurium, the present work was undertaken to evaluate the neutron cross sections of Te in the energy from 10 eV to 20 MeV. The statistical model code CCONE, which was based on the Hauser-Feshbach theory, was used to evaluate cross sections above 10 eV. Parameters required as input to the CCONE code were determined by reflecting the latest knowledge on nuclear physics. As for the neutron optical model parameters, we employed the values obtained by Kunieda et al. using the coupled-channel method. The evaluated results reproduce existing experimental data very well.