Optical model methods of predicting nuclide production from spallation reactions
- Department of Nuclear Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-2300 (United States)
- Department of Physics, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia 23668 (United States)
- NASA Langley Research Center, Mail Stop 188B, Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001 (United States)
Quantum mechanical optical model methods for calculating isotope production cross sections from the spallation of heavy nuclei by high-energy protons are developed from a modified abrasion-ablation collision formalism. The abrasion step is treated quantum-mechanically as a knockout process which leaves the residual prefragment nucleus in an excited state. In ablation the prefragment deexcites to produce the final fragment. The excitation energies of the prefragments are estimated from a combination of liquid drop and frictional-spectator interaction considerations. Estimates of elemental and isotopic production cross sections are in good agreement with recently published cross section measurements. {copyright} {ital 1998} {ital The American Physical Society}
- OSTI ID:
- 574015
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, C, Journal Name: Physical Review, C Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 57; ISSN 0556-2813; ISSN PRVCAN
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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