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JAERI-Conf 96-008

3.23 -Ray Emission From -Incident Spoliation Reaction

Kiminori IGA*1, Kenji ISHIBASHI'1, Ncbuhiro SHIGYO*1, Tatsushi NAKAMOTO*', Keisuke MAEHATA*', Naruhiro MATSUFUJI*2, Shin-ichirou MEIGO*3, Hiroshi TAKADA*\ Satoshi CHIBA*3, Masaharu NUMAJIRI*4, Takashi NAKAMURA*5, Yukinobu WATANABE'6

*1 Department of Nuclear Engineering, Kyushu University, Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka-shi 812-81. *2 National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Anakawa, inage-ku, Chiba-shi 263. *3 Japan Atomic Research Institute, Tokai-mura, Ibaraki-ken 319-11. *4 National Laboratory for High Energy Physics, Oho, Tsukuba-shi, 305. *5 Cyclotron Radioisotope Center, Tohoku University, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi 980-77. *6 Energy Conversion Engineering, Kyushu University, Kasuga-koen, Kasuga-shi 816. e-mail: [email protected]

Gamma-ray emission double differential cross sections from proton-incident reaction have been measured at incident of 0.8, 1.5 and 3.0 GeV with Al, Fe, In and Pb targets. The experimental results have been compared with calculate values of HETC-KFA2. The measured cross sections disagree with the calculated results in the energies above 10 MeV.

1.Introduction Gamma-ray spectra from spallation reaction may show information about the target nucleus at . However, the systematic experimental data have not been taken for the spallation reaction so far. Simulation codes such as HETC-KFA2(I) consider the gamma-ray emission with a simplified assumption, but their prediction adequacies have never been tested in detail for the spallation reaction. In this study we obtained the gamma-ray emission double differential cross sections by incident of a GeV range. The results were compared with HETC-KFA2.

2.Experiment The experiment was carried out at the n2 line of the 12 GeV proton synchrotron at National Laboratory for High Energy Physics. The experimental arrangement is illustrated in Fig. 1. Incident proton energies were 0.8, 1.5 and 3.0 GeV, and targets were Al, Fe, In and Pb. The detectors were placed in the directions of 15, 30, 60, 90, 120 and 150° . Since the primary purpose of this experiment was to measure by the TOF method, both gamma rays and neutrons were detected by $5"

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X5" and 02"X2" liquid NE213. The $2"X2" scintillator data, however, were not analyzed, because they produced unclear spectra for gamma rays of interest. The discrimination between gamma ray and was accomplished by the two-gate integration metbod(2). The example of ADC spectrum of gamma rays is shown in Fig. 2.

3.AnaIyses The energies of ADC channels were corrected by gamma rays from checking sources of 137Cs, 60Co and Am-Be gamma rays up to 4.4 MeV. Above 4.4 MeV, we converted neutron energy that was measured by TOF method, into gamma-ray energy in terms of empirical expression by Cecil et al. (3)

a93 Ee = 0.83£;,-2.82[1.0-exp(-0.25£;, )] 0) where the energy Ec and the recoil proton energy Ep in detector are presented in units of MeV. The calibration result for ADC channel is plotted in Fig. 3. The response functions of NE213 were calculated by EGS4 code(4). The calculated response function for 60Co gamma ray is presented in Fig. 4 together with measured one. Because of the poor energy resolution of NE?13 the response function shows the sum of 1.173 MeV and 1.333 MeV gamma rays. The disagreement at lower energies was caused by background events. The response functions above 60 MeV are shown in Fig. 5. When incident gamma ray energies were higher than 60 MeV, the response functions of the scintillator are almost the same due to the use of small size NE213 containing low elements of C and H. This situation made it impossible to analyze gamma-ray spectra below 60 MeV. Gamma-ray emission cross sections were obtained by unfolding ADC spectra by FERDo-U code(5). The spectra contained a small amount of gamma rays that were created in scintillator by neutron: the peak at 4.4 MeV that made by 12C(n,n')12C* reaction was eliminated by eye measure. Gamma-ray attenuation in targets was corrected by the simulation calculation with EGS4 code. Experimental double differential cross sections are shown in Figs. 6, 7, 8 and 9 with the results of HETC-KFA2. The error bars indicate statistical ones and they are expressed only upper part for ease of looking. Since HETC-KFA2 calculates gamma-ray emission from the evaporation process, the results are isotropic and the same shape at different angles. The experimental results were in mostly good agreement with the results of HETC-KFA2 below 10 MeV, whereas the measured data are considerably larger than the calculation beyond this energy. Above 10 MeV, gamma rays may be emitted by such process as nuclear , preequilibrium processes, dipole and high- state nucleus.

4.Conclusion Gamma-ray emission double differential cross sections were obtained below 60 MeV. We compared the experimental results with the calculation results of HETC-KFA2. The experimental results are in good agreement with the calculation values only in the energy range of the evaporation process.

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Acknowledgements We gratefully acknowledge Prof. H. Hirayama and Dr. Y. Namito for use of EGS4, and Prof. S. Ban for use of FERDo-U.

References (1) Cloth, P., et al. : KFA-IRE-E AN/12/88 (1988) (2) Zucker, M. S., et al. : Nucl. Instrum. Methods, A299, 281 (1990) (3) Cecil, R. A., et al. : Nucl. Instrum. Methods, 161, 439 (1979) (4) Nelson, W. R., et al. : SLAC-Report-265 (1985) (5) Burrus, W. R. : ORNL-3743 (1965)

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