Spallation of light nuclei

doi:10.1016/0375-9474(67)90775-0

Nuclear Physics A

Volume 97, Issue 1, 17 April 1967, Pages 144-163

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Abstract

The experimental data on proton and neutron spallation of light nuclei (9 ≦ A ≦ 32) have been gathered and analysed. The important features are made quantitative interms of certain parameters, similar, (but not identical) to those used by Rudstam^1,2) to study heavier nuclei (A>40). In turn these parameters will be useful for the predictions of unmeasured cross-sections. In the range from about 90 MeV to several GeV the cross sections for reactions leading to more than three outgoing particles on light nuclei are, in the average, very smooth functions of a small set of physical parameters, which can be qualitatively related to the nuclear processes involved. The governing factors are the third component of the isospin ( $T_{3} = 12 (N−Z)$ ) and the mass A of the target nucleus (A_t, T_3t) and of the observed product nucleus (A_p, T_3p) and the incident nucleon energy E_p. The influence of each one of these five parameters on the cross sections is discussed with the help of the Serber two-step model.

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Spallation of light nuclei

Abstract

Nuclear Physics

Phys. Lett.

Phys. Lett.

thesis

Zeit. Natf.

Annals of Physics

Varenna School of Physics

Phys. Rev.

Ann. de Phys.

Nuovo Cim.