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Excitation functions of products from 208,207,206,nat-Pb and 209Bi(p,x) reactions measured in the 40-2600 meVenergy range and predicted theoretically.

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OSTI ID:977934
More than 5000 independent and cumulative yields of radioactive residual product nuclides with lifetimes ranging from 13.2 min ({sup 187}Re) to 31.55 years ({sup 207}Bi) are measured in the {sup 208,207,206,nat}Pb and {sup 209}Bi thin targets irradiated by 0.04, 0.07, 0.10, 0.15, 0.25, 0.40, 0.60, 0.80, 1.20, 1.60, and 2.60 GeV external proton beams from the ITEP U10 accelerator. The independent and cumulative measured yields of residual products in thin lead and bismuth targets irradiated with 0.04-2.6 GeV protons are compared with results by the LAHET, CEM03, LAQGSM03, INCL+ABLA, CASCADE, CASCADO and LAHETO codes, in order to evaluate the predictive powr of the codes in this energy region. We found that the predictive power of the tested codes is different but is satisfactory for most of the nuclides in the spallation region, though none of the codes agree well with the data in the whole mass region of product nuclides and all should be improved further. On the whole, the predictive power of all codes for the data in the fission and fragmentation product regions and, especially, at the borders between spallation and fission and between fission and fragmentation regions is much worse than in the spallation region; therefore, development of better evaporation/fission/fragmentation models is of first priority.
Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE
OSTI ID:
977934
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-04-8090
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English