Neutron induced light-ion production from iron and bismuth at 175 MeV

• Main Authors: Bevilacqua R., Pomp S., Simutkin V., Tippawan U., Andersson P., Blomgren J., Österlund M., Hayashi M., Hirayama S., Naito Y., Watanabe Y., Tesinsky M., Lecolley F., Marie N., Hjalmarsson A., Prokofiev A., Kolozhvari A.
• Format: Journal
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=78649800463&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/43203
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

We have measured light-ion (p, d, t, 3 He and α) production in the interaction of 175 MeV neutrons with iron and bismuth with low-energy thresholds and for a wide angular range (from 20° to 160°, in steps of 20°). Measurements have been performed with the Medley setup, semi-permanently installed at the The Svedberg Laboratory, Uppsala (Sweden), where a quasi-monoenergetic neutron beam is available and well characterized. Medley is a conventional spectrometer system and consists of eight telescopes, each of them composed of two silicon surface barrier detectors, to perform particle identification, and a CsI(Tl) scintillator to fully measure the kinetic energy of the produced light-ions. We report preliminary double-differential cross sections for production of protons, deuterons and tritons in comparison with model calculations using TALYS-1.0 code. These show better agreement for the production of protons, while the theoretical calculations seem to overestimate the experimental production of deuterons and tritons. © 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.