Modelling and analysis of nucleon emission from deuteron-induced reactions at incident energies up to 100 MeV

¹ Nuclear Science and Engineering Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4, Shirakata, Tokai-mura, Ibaraki, 319-1195, Japan
² Department of Advanced Energy Engineering Science, Kyushu University, 6-1, Kasuga-koen, Kasuga-shi, Fukuoka, 816-8580, Japan
³ Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing, 100094, China
⁴ Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University, 10-1, Mihogaoka, Ibaraki-shi, Osaka, 567-0047, Japan

^a Corresponding author: nakayama.shinsuke@jaea.go.jp

Published online: 21 June 2016

Abstract

We have so far developed a computational code system dedicated to deuteron-induced reactions in combination with some theoretical models. In our previous works, the code system was successfully applied to systematic analyses of double-differential cross sections (DDXs) of (d,xp) reactions for ¹²C, ²⁷Al, and ⁵⁸Ni at incident energies up to 100 MeV. In the present work, we apply the code system to neutron emission from deuteron-induced reactions. Since there is few experimental data of DDXs of (d,xn) reactions, double-differential thick target neutron yields (TTNYs) are calculated and compared with experimental data instead of DDXs. The calculation using the code system reproduces the measured TTNYs for carbon at incident energies up to 50 MeV.