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In many ENDF-format evaluations, the spectra of neutrons emitted
in a reaction are given as independent of angle using File 5.
This is reasonable in some cases, but at higher neutron energies
there is often a strong correlation between the energy distribution
and the angle of emission. Correlated energy distributions can be
described using File 6. File 5 allows for several different representations of the spectra of outgoing neutrons: LF=1, Arbitrary tabulation function: A set of incident energies is given, and a normalized tabulated distribution is given at each incident energy. This option is very general, and it is the modern choice for detailed fission spectra, such as those produced with the Los Alamos Standard Model.
LF=5, General evaporation spectrum: Here a temperature-like
quantity
LF=7, Simple Maxwellian fission spectrum: This is a fairly
old model for the distribution of neutrons emitted by fission, but
it is still in fairly wide use. The effective temperature
LF=9, Evaporation spectrum: This is the kind of shape that
would be expected if the the compound nucleus during a reaction had
lots of time to come into equilibrium before the neutron was
emitted, and it may not be a bad approximation for fairly low
incident energies (a few MeV). At higher energies, preequilibrium
emission begins to change the shape away from the evaporation form,
but this is also the region where energy-angle correlation begins to
be important. Once again, the effective temperature of the compound
system LF=11, Energy-dependent Watt spectrum: The Watt spectrum is a more sophisticated representation of fission than the simple Maxwellian law described above. Two functions a(E) and b(E) are tabulated in File 5, and the range of final energies allowed is from zero to E-U. LF=12, Madland-Nix fission spectrum: This is another sophisticated fission model based on two constants EFL and EFM, the average kinetic energies of the light and heavy fragments, respectively, and a temperature-like quantity TM that is given as a function of incident energy E. The following is an example of a tabulated distribution (LF=1) from File 5 for the 27Al(n,2n) reaction from ENDF/B-VI Release 0:
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