• Title of article

    Measurements of neutron spectra produced from a thick lead target bombarded with 0.5- and 1.5-GeV protons

  • Author/Authors

    Meigo، نويسنده , , S and Takada، نويسنده , , H and Chiba، نويسنده , , S and Nakamoto، نويسنده , , T and Ishibashi، نويسنده , , K and Matsufuji، نويسنده , , N and Maehata، نويسنده , , K and Shigyo، نويسنده , , N and Watanabe، نويسنده , , Y and Numajiri، نويسنده , , M، نويسنده ,

  • Pages
    10
  • From page
    521
  • To page
    530
  • Abstract
    Neutron spectra produced from a thick lead target bombarded with 0.5 and 1.5 GeV protons have been measured in order to provide experimental data for benchmarking the medium-energy particle transport calculations. The accurate neutron spectra were obtained in the energy region between 1.6 and 150 MeV. The measured data have been compared with the calculated results of an NMTC/JAERI-MCNP-4A code system. The calculation reproduces the experiment fairly well for the lower energy less than 10 MeV. It, however, gives about 50% lower neutron flux in the energy region between 20 and 80 MeV. By using the in-medium nucleon–nucleon scattering cross sections, this disagreement has been reduced.
  • Keywords
    Spallation neutron , neutron spectrum , NE213 , 0.5 and 1.5  , GeV protons , NMTC/JAERI , Thick target
  • Journal title
    Astroparticle Physics
  • Record number

    2009613