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Total MACS at 30keV:

611.6

±

6.0

mb

Cross sections do not include stellar enhancement factors!

Version	Total MACS [mb]	Partial to gs [mb]	Partial to isomer [mb]
1.0	611.6 ± 6.0	-	-
0.0	582 ± 9	-	-

(Version 0.0 corresponds to Bao et al.)

RR: will provide new text here.

Au-197 is used as standard for most astrophysical cross section measurements. Unfortunately, it is at the moment only a standard in the thermal region and between E(n)= 200 keV and 2.8 MeV (au197). Recent measurements at nTOF (CL11, CM10) and GELINA (MBD14) show a discrepancy of about 5% to the previously used standard value at kT= 30 keV from RaK88 and Mac82e.
The new recommended standard cross section for the astrophysical energy region was derived between kT= 5 and 50 keV by the weighted average of the GELINA measurement of MBD14 and the nTOF measurement of CL11,CM10. The uncertainty in this energy range was taken from MBD14. For the energies between kT= 60-100 keV we used the average of the recent libraries (jeff32, jendl40, endfb71) and the uncertainty from the standard deviation given in jeff32 and endfb71.
The previous standard value used for activations with the Li-7(p,n)Be-7 reaction at E(p)= 1912 keV was 586 (9) mb, the so-called "Ratynski value" (RaK88). At this energy the neutrons are collimated in a forward cone of 120 degree opening angle and resemble a quasi-stellar neutron spectrum of kT= 25 keV. With the new results this value would change to 632 (9) mb.
Last review: In process

original	renorm.	year	type	Comment	Ref
613 ± 7		2014	c	eLINAC, U(gamma,f)/(gamma,n), TOF; Au:Sat.; incl. data from jeff32	MBD14
611 ± 22		2011	c	Pb Spall., TOF; Au:Sat.	CL11,CM10
617.8 ± 11.0 E(n)= 23 keV	541	1991	c	Sb-Be, Act., 1/v(E), 4pi manganese bath meth.	SQK91
582 ± 9		1988	c	VdG, Act., 1/v(kT), Activity of 7Be from 7Li(p,n)	RaK88
611 ± 18		1985	r	VdG, TOF., 6Li; Au:Sat.	KKP85
592 ± 18		1984	c	VdG, Act., Activity of 7Be from 7Li(p,n)	ZJC84
599 ± 33		1983	b	Linac, TOF, 10B, endfb52	YIS83
588 ± 20		1982	c	Linac, TOF, 6Li, Au:Sat.	Mac82e
628 ± 30		1977	b	VdG, TOF, 10B:Mag75	KYM77
600 ± 40		1976	c	Linac, TOF, 10B:SPU71, 235U: endfb3	GSI76
640 ± 40		1976	c	Linac, TOF, 10B:SPU71, 235U: endfb3	GSI76
579 ± 8		1982	c	Linac, TOF, 6Li, Au:Sat.	Mac82e
585 ± 17		1973	c	Linac, TOF, 10B:SPU71, 235U:Dav68	CzS73
788 ± 79 23keV	591	1973	c	Sb-Be, Act., 1 /v(E), 127I: 836mb (23keV)	SSR73
600 ± 50		1970	c	quoted from GSI76	FLF70
596 ± 18		1969	c	VdG, TOF, 10B+6Li: endfb4	Kom69
600 ± 9		1966	c	VdG, Act., Activity of 7Be from 7Li(p,n) + Mn bath method	Poe66a
600 ± 30		1963	c	Linac, TOF, 10B, quoted from GSI76	MoR63
618.3 ± 7.9		2014	e	JEFF-3.2 plus standard dev.	jeff32
614.1 ± 8.0		2011	e	ENDF/B-VII.1 plus standard dev.	endfb71
611.4		2011	e	JENDL-4.0	jendl40
611.5		2004	e	JEFF-3.1	jeff31
608.2		2001	e	ENDF/B-VI.8	endfb68
601.0		1994	e	ENDF/B-V.2	endfb52
626.2		1975	e	ENDF/B-IV	endfb4
691.0		1972	e	ENDF/B-III	endfb3
610 ± 20		1979	e		Kin79
600 ± 50		1971	e		AGM71
399		2005	t	MOST 2005	Gor05
420		2002	t	MOST 2002	Gor02
528		2000	t	NON-SMOKER	RaT99
1181		1981	t		Har81
842		1976	t		HWF76

Original:MACS [<σ v>/v_T] (mb) for kT=30 keV, based on the published cross sections except where indicated otherwise.
Renorm:MACS [<σ v>/v_T] (mb) for kT=30 keV for which the reference or standard cross section was meanwhile improved.
Type: The letters and numbers in the column labelled 'type' give information on how the cross section has been obtained:

c	Directly quoted from the reference itself
r	Recalculated for kT = 30keV with the code described in Ref. 2 after renormalizing the original data to updated standard cross sections
b	Calculated from smooth cross sections with model fit: ln(sigma) = a + a1 ln(E) + a2 ln^2(E)
e	Evaluated value taken directly from the reference
t	Theoretical value

Energy	5keV	8keV	10keV	15keV	20keV	25keV	30keV	40keV	50keV	60keV	80keV	100keV
MACS	2056 ± 37	1455 ± 19	1241 ± 14	940 ± 10	781 ± 8	681 ± 7	612 ± 6	521 ± 5	463 ± 5	423 ± 4	367 ± 4	329 ± 3
Xfactor	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	0.99	0.98	0.97	0.94	0.92	0.84	0.74
SEF	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	0.99	0.99	0.98	0.96	0.95	0.93	0.92	0.92
Rate	1.22	1.09	1.04	0.96	0.92	0.89	0.87	0.84	0.82	0.81	0.80	0.81

MACS:
Reference: Rei18
Procedure: 'd' (Renormalized 2017 based on updated Au measurement)
Year: 2018

X-factor:
Reference: Rau12
Year: 2012

SEF (Stellar enhancement factor):
Reference: Rau09
Year: 2009
Comment:

Rate:
Reaction rate N_A<σv> given in 10⁸ cm³/mole/s, including SEF

	197Tl 2.84 h β+ 198Tl 5.30 h β+ 199Tl 7.42 h β+ 200Tl 1.09 d β+ 201Tl 3.04 d β+ 196Hg 0.15 204 mb 197Hg 2.67 d β+ 198Hg 9.97 173 mb 199Hg 16.87 374 mb 200Hg 23.1 115 mb 195Au 186.11 d β+ 196Au 6.17 d β+ 197Au 100 582 mb 198Au 2.70 d 840 mb, β- 199Au 3.14 d β- 194Pt 32.967 365 mb 195Pt 33.832 860 mb 196Pt 25.242 183 mb 197Pt 19.89 h β- 198Pt 7.163 92.2 mb 193Ir 62.7 994 mb 194Ir 19.28 h β- 195Ir 2.50 h β- 196Ir 52.00 s β- 197Ir 5.80 m β-

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