Imaginary spin-orbit potential in the inelastic scattering of polarized protons from12C and16O

Analyzing powers and cross sections for elastic and inelastic scattering of 20, 30 and 40 MeV polarized protons from¹²C and¹⁶O have been analyzed in the coupled-channels collective model using the full Thomas deformed spin-orbit term. Evidence is given that there is an imaginary spin-orbit potential in the proton optical potential for these nuclei.     

Competition between exit channels leading to the same residual nucleus in heavy-ion reactions

Competition between pn and d as well as between p2n, dn and t emission in the production of individual residual states has been observed in nuclear reactions induced by ¹⁶O on ¹²C and ¹³C targets. The experimental relative yields for the production of the 417 keV state in ²⁶Al by pn and d emission, measured as a function of bombarding energy in the reaction ¹²C(¹⁶O,pn/d)²⁶Al, are successfully described by Hauser-Feshbach calculations.     

Proton-neutron correlation in the deuteron breakup at 56 MeV and prior-form DWBA analysis

Proton-neutron angular correlations in the ¹²C, ⁵¹V and ¹¹⁸Sn(d, pn) reactions have been measured at 56 MeV to investigate the deuteron breakup process. The elastic breakup which leaves the target nucleus in its ground state dominates the coincident spectra. The elastic breakup cross sections are estimated to be 36–48% of the inclusive breakup yields at 15° or 17.5°. In the angular correlations the protons are emitted predominantly on the side of the beam opposite to the neutrons. The experimental data have been analyzed using the prior-form DWBA. For both nuclear and Coulomb breakup, sufficient convergence of the calculations is obtained by including the pn angular momenta up to l = 2. For the nuclear breakup calculations, the l = 0 and 2 contributions dominate the cross sections. For the Coulomb breakup the l = 1 contribution is predominant. In the calculations the effect of the Coulomb breakup is seen at forward angles of the angular correlation. The DWBA calculations reproduce fairly well the coincident energy spectra and the angular correlations in the angular region where the protons are emitted on the side of the beam opposite to the neutrons. On the other hand the calculations overestimate the break-up cross sections by a factor of 2 to 10 in the angular region where the protons are emitted on the same side of the beam as the neutrons. The distributions of deuteron c.m. angular momenta that contribute to the breakup amplitude are examined to obtain information on the region of space in which the breakup reactions takes place.     

Calculation of proton total reaction cross sections for some target nuclei in incident energy range of 10–600 MeV

In this study, proton total reaction cross sections have been investigated for some isotopes such as ¹²C, ²⁷Al, ⁹Be, ¹⁶O, ¹⁸¹Ta, ¹⁹⁷Au, ⁶Li, and ¹⁴N by a proton beam up to 600 MeV. Calculation of the proton total cross sections has been carried out by the analytic expression formulated by M.A. Alvi by using Coulomb-modified Glauber theory with the Helm model nuclear form factor. The obtained results have been discussed and compared with the available experimental data and found to be in agreement with each other.     

Polarisation effects in the 12C(3He,pp) reaction at 33MeV

Differential cross sections and analysing powers were measured for the ¹²C(³He, pp)¹³C reaction induced by a 33 MeV polarised ³He beam at many combinations of detection angles of the coincident protons in both coplanar and out-of-plane configurations. Data characterised by low relative proton energies were successfully described by the sequential breakup model while at higher relative energies other reaction mechanisms become important.     

Cross sections and reaction mechanisms of (p,pxn) reactions on 208Pb in the 24–52 MeV range

The cross sections for the reactions ²⁰⁸Pb(p, pn)^207mPb, ²⁰⁸Pb(p, p2n)^206mPb have been measured for 24, 28, 36, 44 and 52 MeV incident protons. The experimental results are shown to be consistent with the clean knockout mechanism for the (p, pn) reaction and with knockout of one neutron followed by evaporation of another for the (p, p2n) reaction. We deduce a theoretical formula for the cross section for these reactions.     

Charged particle production on 12C by intermediate energy neutrons

Energy spectra of protons, deuterons and tritons produced on ¹²C by 545 MeV neutrons have been measured at 7 angles between 73° and 165°. The slopes of the invariant cross sections and absolute yields are compared to corresponding proton induced reactions at similar energies and angles.     

Fragmentation Cross Sections of 12C on Different Targets at Beam Energies from 50 to 100MeV/Nucleon

The fragmentation cross sections of reactions ^12C＋^2H, ^12C, ^14N, ^16O at beam energies from 50 to 100 MeV/nucleon are investigated using the isospin-dependent Boltzmann-Langevin equation model. It is found that fragment species increase approximately with the increasing target mass. The fragment species and some fragments production cross sections in reactions of ^12C＋^12C, ^14N, ^16O show an obvious variation at the beam energies from 50 to 80 MeV/nucleon. However the calculated fragment production cross sections do not change much when the incident energy increases from 80 to 100 MeV/nucleon.     

在独立α集团模型下对敲出反应16O(p,pα)12C和16 O(α,2α)12C的研究

在独立α集团模型下，利用扭曲波冲量近似(DWIA)，计算了实验室系下入射能量为101.5MeV 的敲出反应¹⁶O(p，pα)¹²C和实验室系下入射能量分别为90Me V和140MeV 的敲出反应¹⁶O(α,2α)¹²C.得到的反应截面和谱因子与实 验数据基本符 合，比用壳模型的结果有了一定的改进，表明独立α集团模型能较好地描述α集团敲出反应 的机理. 关键词： α集团模型 敲出反应 反应截面 谱因子     

Experimental determination of the total reaction cross section of the stellar nuclear reaction 16O + 16O

The total reaction cross section for ¹⁶O + ¹⁶O has been measured at six energies between E_c.m. = 6.8 and 11.9 MeV. Cross sections for the production of protons, alphas, neutrons, deuterons, ³¹S, ³⁰P, ¹²C(g.s.) + ²⁰Ne(g.s.) and the relative γ-yield were obtained with a variety of experimental methods. No ³H or ³He were found. All cross sections are normalized to ¹⁶O + ¹⁶O elastic scattering at θ_c.m. = 90°, which was measured separately with high precision between E_c.m. = 7.3 and 14.4 MeV. The elastic scattering and relative γ-yield of ¹²C + ¹²C were measured between E_c.m. = 3.9 and 7.5 MeV. The elastic scattering and neutron yield of ¹²C + ¹⁶O were measured between E_c.m. = 5.4 and 10.1 MeV.     

Spin-orbit deformation in the inelastic scattering of polarized protons from12C and16O

Analyzing powers and cross sections for elastic and inelastic scattering of 20, 30 and 40MeV polarized protons from¹²C and¹⁶O have been analyzed in the coupled-channels collective model using the full Thomas deformed spin-orbit term. It is clear from this analysis that the spin-orbit deformation is energy dependent.     

Study of some two-nucleon pick-up reactions in the 1p shell with 39.8 MeV protons

Differential cross sections at a proton energy of 39.8 MeV (lab) have been measured for the following reactions (energies in MeV): ¹²C(p,τ)¹⁰B(g.s., 0.72, 1.74, 2.15, 3.59), ¹⁴C(p, t)¹²C(g.s., 4.43), ¹⁴N(p, τ)¹²C(g.s., 4.43), and ¹⁶O(p,τ)¹⁴N(g.s., 2.31, 3.95). A zero-range DWBA analysis of the data has been performed using the 1p shell wave functions of Cohen and Kurath. The fits we find are overall somewhat worse in shape than those found in the (p, t) survey of the 1p shell performed by Kahana and Kurath, the principal reason being that of the (p, τ) transitions which proceed with both L = 0 and L = 2 components we find several which occur with a much weaker L = 0 strength than the calculations predict. When ratios of experimental integrated cross sections to DWBA integrated cross sections are compared for all transitions, an rms deviation about the mean of 39% of the mean is found, whereas if only ratios for transitions from a given target nucleus are compared, then the rms deviations are considerably smaller.     

Nucleons produced in inelastic electron scattering with a deuterium target

We have measured at ?k² = 0.6 (GeV/c)² and W = 2.3 GeV the inclusive electroproduction cross sections for final-state neutrons and protons from a deuterium target. By comparison with previous data from a proton target, we present cross sections for inclusive nucleon production from neutrons which show great similarity to those from protons. There is evidence that ?⁰ production is present with essentially the same strength as with a proton target.     

Fast neutron capture reactions in nuclear astrophysics

The cross sections of the neutron capture reaction on light nuclei, protons,¹²C and¹⁶O, were measured at astrophysically relevant energies between 10 and 300 keV. They are not only important for estimating yields of elements in the primordial nucleosynthesis, stellar nucleosynthesis of s-, r-, and p-processes, but also to study the role of meson exchange currents, the nuclear structure and the reaction mechanism. In the measurement, we used a prompt γ-ray detection method, combined with a pulsed neutron beam, and a recently developed Monte-Carlo code, TIME-MULTI, to correct for neutron multiple-scattering effects in a sample.     

Elastic scattering of high-energy protons from nuclei

The elastic scattering of high-energy protons from zero-spin nuclei is considered within the framework of Glauber theory. The sensitivity of the cross sections to the nuclear structure and to the proton-nucleon amplitude is studied. Results of calculations demonstrating the investigated effects are presented for the case of 1 GeV proton scattering from ⁴He, ¹⁶O and ⁵⁸Ni.     

Electroinduced two-nucleon knockout and correlations in nuclei

A model to calculate cross sections for electroinduced two-nucleon emission from finite nuclei is presented. Short-range correlations in the wave functions and meson-exchange contributions to the photoabsorption process are implemented. Effects of the short-range correlations are studied with the aid of a perturbation expansion method with various choices of the Jastrow correlation function. The model is used to investigate the relative importance of the different reaction mechanisms contributing to the A(e,e′pn) and A(e,e′pp) process. Representative examples for the target nuclei ¹²C and ¹⁶O and for kinematical conditions accessible with contemporary high-duty cycle electron accelerators are presented. A procedure is outlined to calculate the two-nucleon knockout contribution to the semi-exclusive (e,e′p) cross section. Using this technique we investigate to what extent far semi-exclusive (e,e′p) reactions can be used to detect high-momentum components in the nuclear spectral function.     

Comparative yields of alkali elements and thallium from uranium irradiated with GeV protons,3He and12C

Mass-separated ion beams of the alkali elements Na, K, and Fr, and of the element Tl, were produced by bombarding a uranium target with 600 MeV protons, 890 MeV³He^{2 +}, and 936 MeV¹²C^{4 +}. Isotopic production yields are reported. In the case of the¹²C beam, these are thick target yields. Absolute cross-sections for the proton beam data were deduced by normalizing the delay-time corrected yield curves to measured cross-sections. For products farthest away from stability, the³He^{2 +} beam generally gives the highest yields.     

Angular and energy distribution of electrons produced by 200–500 keV protons in gases

The cross beam method was used to measure double differential ionization cross sections for electron production by 200–500 keV protons incident on a molecular beam. The ejected secondary electrons were detected by an electron multiplier and an electrostatic 90 °-spectrometer which was movable in the scattering chamber from 18 °–155 ° with respect to the incident proton direction. After the elimination of disturbing electric and magnetic fields, electrons were measured at energies down to 1 eV. The absorption of the very slow electrons along their path through the spectrometer could be minimized by using a relatively low gas pressure in the scattering chamber of a few 10^?5 Torr. The efficiency of the electron detector was determined with an electron source whose emission rate per solid angle was known. Absolute cross sections and their angular dependence were obtained by measuring the slow electrons—ejected with a relatively high rate—without the molecular beam; these data being used to normalize the electron spectra acquired with the molecular beam. Ionization cross sections with 300 keV protons incident on helium are discussed and except for the very slow electrons, a good agreement is found with results of Ruddet al.     

Cross sections for monitor reactions 27Al((p, x)24Na, 27Al(p, x)22Na, and 27Al(p, x)7Be at proton energies in the range 0.04–2.6 GeV

The cross sections for the monitor reactions ²⁷Al(p, x)²⁴Na, ²⁷Al(p, x)²²Na, and ²⁷Al(p, x)⁷Be at 12 proton energies, 2605, 1598, 1199, 799, 600, 400, 249, 147.6, 97.2, 66.0, 44.6, and 40.8 MeV, have been determined with 72 × 72-mm square and 10.5-mm-diameter round aluminum foils. The rates of the reactions of the production of ²⁴Na, ²²Na, and ⁷Be in the foils in each irradiation run have been determined by γ spectrometry, whereas the number of protons transmitted through these foils has been determined using calibrated fast current transformers. The cross sections have been determined as the ratios of the corresponding reaction to the average proton fluence.     

IWB analysis of scattering and fusion cross sections for the 12C+12C, 13C+16O and 16O+16O reactions for energies near and below the Coulomb barrier

Calculations are presented of the elastic scattering and fusion cross sections for the astrophysically interesting reactions ¹²C+¹²C, ¹²C+¹⁶O and ¹⁶O+¹⁶O. The calculations are performed using the incoming wave boundary condition (IWB) and a real ion-ion interaction potential. The results are compared with the available experimental data for the energy region near and below the Coulomb barrier. With values of two adjustable potential parameters (the radial position of the l = 0 barrier and the diffuseness) determined by fitting elastic scattering data, good agreement is obtained for the average energy dependence of the ¹²C+¹²C and ¹²C+¹⁶O fusion cross sections. In the case of ¹⁶O+¹⁶O, both the calculated absolute magnitude and the energy dependence of the fusion cross section are inconsistent with the data and this discrepancy is discussed.