Abstract
Spallation neutron production in proton induced reactions on Pb targets at 0.8, 1.2, and 1.6 GeV has been measured at the SATURNE accelerator. Double-differential cross sections were obtained over a broad angular range from which averaged neutron multiplicities per reaction were inferred for energies above 2 MeV. The results are compared with calculations performed with a high energy transport code including two different intranuclear cascade (INC) models: it is shown that the Cugnon INC model gives a better agreement with the data than the Bertini one, mainly because of improved nucleon-nucleon cross sections and Pauli blocking treatment.
- Received 19 October 1998
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4412
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