Inelastic interactions of fast nucleons with nuclei and fission of nuclei

Physics of Atomic Nuclei - Tập 75 - Trang 1-7 - 2012
V. G. Vovchenko1, V. V. Polyakov1, O. Ya. Fedorov1, Yu. A. Chestnov1
1Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Gatchina, Russia

Tóm tắt

The cross section for the fission of actinide nuclei that is induced by fast neutrons is considered as a fraction of the cross section for inelastic nucleon interaction with nuclei. In turn, inelastic nucleon interaction with a nucleus is treated as scattering on intranuclear nucleons. It is shown that this interaction model describes satisfactorily the cross section for the inelastic interaction of 60- to 2200-MeV nucleons for a broad set of nuclei and that the energy dependence of the cross section for the fission of actinide nuclei that is induced by 400- to 1000–MeV protons replicates the energy dependence of the cross section for inelastic interactions with respective nuclei. From the model used, it follows that the cross sections for proton-nucleus interactions exceed cross sections for respective neutron-nucleus interactions in the energy range extending up to 550 MeV; at higher energies neutron cross sections are larger than proton cross sections.

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