Current status of the "Hybrid Kurotama model" for total reaction cross sections
Journal article, 2014
To be able to calculate the nucleon + nucleus and nucleus + nucleus total reaction cross sections with precision is of great importance for studies of fundamental nuclear properties, e.g., the nuclear structure. This is also very important for particle and heavy ion transport calculations since in all particle and heavy ion transport codes, the probability function according to which a projectile particle will collide within a certain distance in a matter depends on the total reaction cross sections. This will also scale the calculated partial fragmentation cross sections. It is therefore crucial that accurate total reaction cross section models are used in the transport calculations. In this paper, a new general purpose total reaction cross section model/subroutine called "Hybrid Kurotama" is presented. The model has been tested against available p + He, p + nucleus, and nucleus + nucleus total reaction cross sections and an overall better agreement has been found than for earlier published models. This model is therefore very suitable to be used in any deterministic or Monte Carlo particle and heavy ion transport code.
accurate universal parameterization
fragment mass
energies
charged-particles
alpha-particles
Cross sections
Reaction cross sections
light-nuclei
intermediate
carbon
Transport calculations
elastic-scattering
relativistic nuclei
Transport code
Monte Carlo
total proton
Author
Lembit Sihver
Chalmers, Applied Physics, Nuclear Engineering
A. Kohama
RIKEN
K. Iida
Kochi University
K. Oyamatsu
Aichi Shukutoku University
S. Hashimoto
Japan Atomic Energy Agency
H. Iwase
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
K. Niita
Research Organization for Information Science and Technology
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
0168-583X (ISSN)
Vol. 334 34-39Subject Categories
Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics
DOI
10.1016/j.nimb.2014.04.021