Cross sections for nuclide production in a Fe56 target irradiated by 300, 500, 750, 1000, 1500, and 2600 MeV protons compared with data on a hydrogen target irradiated by 300, 500, 750, 1000, and 1500 MeV/nucleon Fe56 ions

Yu E. Titarenko, V. F. Batyaev, A. Yu Titarenko, M. A. Butko, K. V. Pavlov, S. N. Florya, R. S. Tikhonov, S. G. Mashnik, A. V. Ignatyuk, N. N. Titarenko, Waclaw Gudowski, M. Těaínský, C. M.L. Persson, H. Ait Abderrahim, H. Kumawat, H. Duarte

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    Abstract

    This work presents the cross sections for radioactive nuclide production in Fe56(p,x) reactions determined in six experiments using 300, 500, 750, 1000, 1500, and 2600 MeV protons of the external beam from the ITEP U-10 proton accelerator. In total, 221 independent and cumulative yields of radioactive residuals of half-lives from 6.6 min to 312 d have been obtained. The radioactive product nuclide yields were determined by direct γ-spectrometry. The measured data have been compared with the experimental data obtained elsewhere by the direct and inverse kinematics methods and with calculation results of 15 different codes that simulated hadron-nucleus interactions: MCNPX (INCL, CEM2K, BERTINI, ISABEL), LAHET (BERTINI, ISABEL), CEM03 (.01,. G1,. S1), LAQGSM03 (.01,. G1,. S1), CASCADE-2004, LAHETO, and BRIEFF. Most of the data obtained here are in a good agreement with the inverse kinematics results and disprove the results of some earlier activation measurements that were quite different from the inverse kinematics measurements. The most significant calculation-to-experiment differences are observed in the yields of the A<30 light nuclei, indicating that further improvements in nuclear reaction models are needed, and pointing out as well to a necessity of more complete experimental measurements of such reaction products.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number034615
    Number of pages53
    JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
    Volume78
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Sep 2008

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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