  At the Karlsruhe pulsed 3.75 MV Van de Graaff accelerator the
$^{36}S(n,\gamma)^{37}S(5.05 min)$ cross section was measured by the fast
cyclic activation technique via the 3.103 MeV $\gamma$-ray line of the
$^{37}$S-decay. Samples of elemental sulfur enriched in $^{36}$S by 5.933 %
were irradiated between two gold foils which served as capture standards. The
capture cross section was measured at the neutron energies 25, 151, 176, and
218 keV, respectively. The $^{36}S(n,\gamma)^{37}S$-cross section in the
thermonuclear and thermal energy range has been calculated using the
direct-capture (DC) model combined with the folding procedure used for the
determination of the potentials. The non-resonant experimental data for this
reaction can be reproduced excellently using this method. The input parameters
of the DC-calculation (masses, Q-values, nuclear density distributions,
spectroscopic factors, spin-parity assignments and excitation energies of the
low-lying states of the residual nucleus) have been taken from the available
experimental data.

Nuclear Theory;Astrophysics