Thick-target transmission method for excitation functions of interaction cross sections

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Title: Thick-target transmission method for excitation functions of interaction cross sections
Authors: Aikawa, M., Ebata, S., Imai, S.
Source: Nucl. Instr. Meth. B383 (2016), 156-159
Publication Year: 2016
Collection: Nuclear Experiment
Subject Terms: Nuclear Experiment
More Details: We propose a method, called as thick-target transmission (T3) method, to obtain an excitation function of interaction cross sections. In an ordinal experiment to measure the excitation function of interaction cross sections by the transmission method, we need to change the beam energy for each cross section. In the T3 method, the excitation function is derived from the beam attenuations measured at the targets of different thicknesses without changing the beam energy. The advantage of the T3 method is the simplicity and availability for radioactive beams. To confirm the availability, we perform a simulation for the 12C+27Al system with the PHITS code instead of actual experiments. Our results have large uncertainties but well reproduce the tendency of the experimental data.
Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures
Document Type: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2016.07.003
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1610.04693
Accession Number: edsarx.1610.04693
Database: arXiv
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DOI:10.1016/j.nimb.2016.07.003