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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 63 | Number 3 | July 1977 | Pages 242-249
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27037
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The neutron capture cross sections of 241Am and 243Am to the ground and isomeric states of 242Am and 244Am have been calculated using the Hauser-Feshbach statistical theory of nuclear reactions for energies from thermal to 2 MeV. The parameters for the calculations were obtained from recent data on (241Am + n) and (243Am + n) or, where necessary, from systematics of actinide nuclei. The calculated values are in good agreement with the sparse experimental data.