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A new, nonresonant approach to photon accumulation in a system of two spherical mirrors is demonstrated experimentally. A high accumulation coefficient is obtained experimentally, and sufficient efficiency of this technique for application in such areas as spectroscopy, photochemistry, and photon neutralization of negative-ion beams is demonstrated. The photon accumulation efficiency is determined mainly by mirror reflectivity. It is nearly independent of the quality of the coupled-in radiation and does not require very high precision in aligning optical elements. The experimentally obtained data agree with theoretical calculations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The theoretical photo-neutron cross sections for ( γ, n) reaction have been calculated on Nd rare-earth isotopes at photon energies of 8-23 MeV using the PCROSS, TALYS 1.2, and EMPIRE 3.1 computer codes. TALYS 1.2 two-component exciton model and EMPIRE 3.1 exciton model has been used to calculate the pre-equilibrium photo-neutron cross sections. PCROSS Weisskopf-Ewing model has been used for the reaction equilibrium cross-section calculations. The obtained cross sections have been compared with each other and against the experimental values existing in the EXFOR database. Generally, pre-equilibrium model cross-section calculations are in good agreement with the experimental data for all reactions along the incident photon energy in this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The U( γ, n)U reaction cross-section at the end point bremsstrahlung energies of 8 and 10 MeV was measured by using an activation technique. Induced gamma ray activities were measured by high resolution gamma-ray spectrometer with high-purity germanium detector. The photo neutron cross section on U is also calculated theoretically using TALYS 1.2 computer code. The experimentally obtained reaction cross sections were compared with the flux weighted average values from the literature data based on mono-energetic photon as well as the value from TALYS. It was found that the cross section of U( γ, n)U reaction increases with increase of bremsstrahlung energy and were closer to the flux-weighted experimental data from literature and the values from TALYS based on mono-energetic photons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]