Affiliation: | a Kernchemie, FB 15, Philipps-University, D-35032, Marburg, Germany b Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141980, Russia c Forschungszentrum Jülich, FZJ, D-54245, Jülich, Germany d Institute de Recherche Subatomique, University L. Pasteur, F-67037, Strasbourg, France e Physics Department, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki 54006, Greece f Falkiner High Energy Physics Dpt., University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia g Department of Chemistry, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong 793003, India h China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413, China i Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA |
Abstract: | Experiments using 1.5 GeV, 3.7 GeV and 7.4 GeV protons from the Synchrophasotron, LHE, JINR, Dubna, Russia, on extended Pb- and U-targets were carried out using SSNTD and radiochemical sensors for the study of secondary neutron fluences. We also carried out first transmulation studies on the long-lived radwaste nuclei 129I and 237Np. In addition, we carried out computer code simulation studies on these systems using LAHET and DCM/CEM codes. We have difficulties to understand rather large transmutation rates observed experimentally when they are compared with computer simulations. There seems to be a rather fundamental problem understanding the large transmutation rates as observed experimentally in Dubna and CERN, as compared to those theoretical computer simulations mentioned above. |