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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 239, 2020
ND 2019: International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology
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Article Number | 13005 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
Section | Nuclear Data Adjustment | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023913005 | |
Published online | 30 September 2020 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023913005
In search of the best nuclear data file for proton induced reactions: Varying both models and their parameters
1 Laboratory for Reactor Physics and Thermal-Hydraulics, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
2 Division Large Research Facilities (GFA), Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
3 Nuclear Data Section, International Atomic Energy Commission (IAEA), Vienna, Austria
4 Division of Applied Nuclear Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
* e-mail: erwin.alhassan@psi.ch
** e-mail: dimitri-alexandre.rochman@psi.ch
Published online: 30 September 2020
A lot of research work has been carried out in fine tuning model parameters to reproduce experimental data for neutron induced reactions. This however is not the case for proton induced reactions where large deviations still exist between model calculations and experiments for some cross sections. In this work, we present a method for searching both the model and model parameter space in order to identify the ’best’ nuclear reaction models with their parameter sets that reproduces carefully selected experimental data. Three sets of experimental data from EXFOR are used in this work: (1) cross sections of the target nucleus (2) cross sections of the residual nuclei and (3) angular distributions. Selected models and their parameters were varied simultaneously to produce a large set of random nuclear data files. The goodness of fit between our adjustments and experimental data was achieved by computing a global reduced chi square which took into consideration the above listed experimental data. The method has been applied for the adjustment of proton induced reactions on 59Co between 1 to 100 MeV. The adjusted files obtained are compared with available experimental data and evaluations from other nuclear data libraries.
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