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Calculated particle production spectra and multiplicities from nucleon-fissile element collisions at medium energies

Conference ·
OSTI ID:5629310
A fission channel was added to the intranuclear-cascade-evaporation model of nuclear reactions so that this model could be used to obtain the differential particle production data that are needed to study the transport of medium-energy nucleons and pions through matter. The earlier work of Hahn and Bertini on the incorporation of fission-evaporation competition into the intranuclear-cascade-evaporation model was retained, and the statistical model of fission was utilized to predict particle production from the fission process. Approximate empirically derived kinetic energies and deformation energies are used in the statistical model. The calculated residual nuclei distributions are in reasonable agreement with experimental data, but the neutron multiplicities at the higher incident nucleon energies greater than or equal to 500 MeV are sensitive to the level density parameter used. 4 figures.
Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-26
OSTI ID:
5629310
Report Number(s):
CONF-791058--36
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English