The Calculation of Neutron Scattering Cross Sections for Silicon Crystal at the Thermal Energies

The module LEAPR of NJOY data processing system has been improved to have the capability of computing the thermal elastic scattering cross sections for silicon, which has a diamond-like structure. Silicon lattice was assumed as an fcc lattice with two atoms at each lattice point. The calculation formulas for thermal neutron elastic scattering by silicon were introduced and incorporated into LEAPR, and then the scattering cross sections for silicon were computed. The results were compared with experimental data, and they were found to give a good agreement with experimental data.