Experimental Evidence of the Rapidly Increasing Neutron Yields in Proton—Induced Reaction on Heavy Target Across 0.6—1 GeV

The independent yield distribution of the Hg isotopes,measured for the reaction of 600MeV ^18O projectile with a ^nat.Pb target,is converted to 18O 208Phb system and is compared with an Hg-isotope distribution from the spallation reaction of 1A GeV^208Pb on proton.The comparison shows the differences between the two distributions on the production cross sections,isotope-distribution widths as well as their shapes.A great increase of the neutron-deficient Hg isotope yield with increase of bombarding energies of protons from 600MeV to 1GeV is derived.This fact results in an experimental evidence for rapid increasing neutron yields with rising proton bombarding energy from 0.6GeV to 1 GeV.