New evaluation of photon production for JEFF-3

• Main Authors: Santamarina A., Bernard D., Ravaux S.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: EDP Sciences 2013-03-01
• Series: EPJ Web of Conferences
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134204002

In this work, new gamma production evaluations are proposed for JEFF-3 for crucial nuclei for power reactors and Jules Horowitz Reactor: Fe, Ag, In, Cd and Gd. We specifically work on two nuclear reactions: the inelastic scattering and the radiative capture. We performed gamma production multiplicities, angular distributions and energy spectrum for incident neutron energies between 10-11 and 20 MeV by simulating the whole intranuclear gamma cascade. For this simulation, the discrete part of the nuclei level schemes came from the RIPL2.0 library and the latest EGAF measurements carried out at Budapest facility. The EGAF measurements are available in the adopted IAEA library. The continuum level scheme part has been estimated with a level density model: the Gilbert-Cameron model and a strength function model: the Generalized Lorentzian model. Then, the gamma cascade has been simulated using TALYS which is a nuclear reaction modeling code.