Calculation of the intermediate energy activation cross section Furihata, Shiori; Yoshizawa, Nobuaki [Mitsubishi Research Inst., Inc., Tokyo (Japan)] 66 PHYSICS; PROTON REACTIONS; TRITIUM; PRODUCTION; SILICON; ALUMINIUM; IRON; OXYGEN; SPALLATION; SODIUM 22; CROSS SECTIONS; ACCELERATORS; RADIATION PROTECTION; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; MEV RANGE; GEV RANGE 01-10 We discussed the activation cross section in order to predict accurately the activation of soil around an accelerator with high energy and strong intensity beam. For the assessment of the accuracy of activation cross sections estimated by a numerical model, we compared the calculated cross section with various experimental data, for Si(p,x){sup 22}Na, Al(p,x){sup 22}Na, Fe(p,x){sup 22}Na, Si(p,x){sup 7}Be, O(p,x){sup 3}H, Al(p,x){sup 3}H and Si(p,x){sup 3}H reactions. We used three computational codes, i.e., quantum molecular dynamics (QMD) plus statistical decay model (SDM), HETC-3STEP and the semiempirical method developed by Silberberg et.al. It is observed that the codes are accurate above 1GeV, except for {sup 7}Be production. We also discussed the difference between the activation cross sections of proton- and neutron-induced reaction. For the incident energy at 40MeV, it is found that {sup 3}H production cross sections of neutron-induced reaction are ten times as large as those of proton-induced reaction. It is also observed that the choice of the activation cross sections seriously affects to the estimate of saturated radioactivity, if the maximum energy of neutron flux is below 100MeV. (author) Japan Atomic Energy Research Inst., Tokyo (Japan) OSTI as DE97758662 Japan 1997-03-01 English Conference Conference: 1996 symposium on nuclear data, Tokai (Japan), 21-22 Nov 1996; Other Information: PBD: Mar 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the 1996 symposium on nuclear data; Iguchi, Tetsuo [Nagoya Univ. (Japan)]; Fukahori, Tokio [eds.]; PB: 332 p. Medium: X; Size: pp. 211-215 https://doi.org/ ON: DE97758662 [] JAERI-Conf-97-005; CONF-9611184-; INDC(JPN)-179/U Other: ON: DE97758662; TRN: JP9709108 JPN; SCA: 663430; PA: JPN-97:009108; EDB-97:147383; SN: 97001867012 2008-02-05 545187 https://www.osti.gov/etdeweb/servlets/purl/545187