NEUTRON YIELDS FROM PROTON-INDUCED SPALLATION REACTIONS IN THICK TARGETS OF LEAD

Authors
LONE MA WONG PY
Citation
Ma. Lone et Py. Wong, NEUTRON YIELDS FROM PROTON-INDUCED SPALLATION REACTIONS IN THICK TARGETS OF LEAD, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 362(2-3), 1995, pp. 499-505
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
362
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
499 - 505
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1995)362:2-3<499:NYFPSR>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
Total neutron yield, integrated over the neutron energy and emission a ngle, is calculated for spallation reactions in lead at proton energie s between 0.4 and 2 GeV. The computations were made with the LAHET/MCN P code package using the intranuclear-cascade-evaporation model of Ber tini. The dependence of the integral neutron yield on the target dimen sions is investigated and the contribution from the (n, xn) interactio ns of neutrons of energy < 100 MeV is evaluated. For 1.6 GeV protons, the integral neutron yield from a 100 cm diameter, 100 cm long Pb targ et is calculated to be in the range of 46 to 57 n/p, depending on the level density parameter used in the evaporation model.