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New insights on fission of U induced by high energy neutrons from a new measurement at CERN n\_TOF
Alice Manna, Elisa Pirovano, the n\_TOF Collaboration
The U(n,f) reaction cross section was measured relative to neutron-proton elastic scattering for the first time in the energy region from 10 MeV to 440 MeV at the CERN n\_T…
Variance Reduction and Noise Source Sampling Techniques for Monte Carlo Simulations of Neutron Noise Induced by Mechanical Vibrations
Hunter Belanger, Davide Mancusi, Amélie Rouchon +1
Neutron noise in nuclear power reactors refers to the small fluctuations around the average neutron flux at steady state resulting from time-dependent perturbations inside the core…
Unbiasedness and Optimization of Regional Weight Cancellation
Hunter Belanger, Davide Mancusi, Andrea Zoia
The Monte Carlo method is often used to simulate systems which can be modeled by random walks. In order to calculate observables, in many implementations the "walkers" carry a stat…
Space and time correlations for diffusion models with prompt and delayed birth-and-death events
Théophile Bonnet, Davide Mancusi, Andrea Zoia
Understanding the statistical properties of a collection of individuals subject to random displacements and birth-and-death events is key to several applications in physics and lif…
Exact weight cancellation in Monte Carlo eigenvalue transport problems
Hunter Belanger, Davide Mancusi, Andrea Zoia
Random walks are frequently used as a model for very diverse physical phenomena. The Monte Carlo method is a versatile tool for the study of the properties of systems modelled as r…
Parametrization of cross sections for elementary hadronic collisions involving strange particles
J. Hirtz, J. -C. David, A. Boudard +4
The production of strange particles (kaons, hyperons) and hypernuclei in light charged particle induced reactions in the energy range of a few GeV (2-15 GeV) has become a topic of…
and mesons as new degrees of freedom in the intranuclear cascade model INCL
J. -C. David, A. Boudard, J. Cugnon +4
The intranuclear cascade model INCL (Liège Intranuclear Cascade) is now able to simulate spallation reactions induced by projectiles with energies up to roughly 15 GeV. This was ma…
On the role of secondary pions in spallation targets
Davide Mancusi, Sergio Lo Meo, Nicola Colonna +8
We use particle-transport simulations to show that secondary pions play a crucial role for the development of the hadronic cascade and therefore for the production of neutrons and…
Excitation functions of the nat-Ta(p,x)178m2Hf and nat-W(p,x)178m2Hf reactions at energies up to 2600 MeV
Yu. E. Titarenko, V. F. Batyaev, K. V. Pavlov +15
Due to potential level of energy intensity 178m2Hf is an extremely interesting isomer. One possible way to produce this isomer is irradiation of nat-Ta or nat-W samples with high e…
Improving proton-induced one-nucleon removal in intranuclear cascade
Davide Mancusi, Alain Boudard, Jaume Carbonell +3
It is a well-established fact that intranuclear-cascade models generally fail to consistently reproduce the cross sections for one-proton and one-neutron removal from stable nuclei…
Fission induced by nucleons at intermediate energies
Sergio Lo Meo, Davide Mancusi, Cristian Massimi +2
Monte Carlo calculations of fission of actinides and pre-actinides induced by protons and neutrons in the energy range from 100 MeV to 1 GeV are carried out by means of a recent ve…
Shell structure and few-nucleon removal in intranuclear cascade
Davide Mancusi, Alain Boudard, Jaume Carbonell +3
It is well known that intranuclear-cascade models generally overestimate the cross sections for one-proton removal from heavy, stable nuclei by a high-energy proton beam, but they…
Extension of the Liège Intranuclear-Cascade model to reactions induced by light nuclei
Davide Mancusi, Alain Boudard, Joseph Cugnon +3
The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we present the extension of the Liège Intranuclear Cascade model to reactions induced by light ions. Second, we describe the C++ versio…
Nuclear astrophysics with radioactive ions at FAIR
R. Reifarth, S. Altstadt, K. Göbel +317
The nucleosynthesis of elements beyond iron is dominated by neutron captures in the s and r processes. However, 32 stable, proton-rich isotopes cannot be formed during those proces…
QCD analysis of Lambda hyperon production in DIS target-fragmentation region
Federico Alberto Ceccopieri, Davide Mancusi
We consider Lambda-hyperon production in the target-fragmentation region of semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering within the framework of fracture functions. We present a first…
New potentialities of the Liège intranuclear cascade (INCL) model for reactions induced by nucleons and light charged particles
Alain Boudard, Joseph Cugnon, Jean-Christophe David +2
The new version (INCL4.6) of the Li`ege intranuclear cascade (INC) model for the description of spallation reactions is presented in detail. Compared to the standard version (INCL4…
The elusiveness of multifragmentation footprints in 1-GeV proton-nucleus reactions
Davide Mancusi, Alain Boudard, Joseph Cugnon +3
We use the tools of hybrid intranuclear-cascade/nuclear-de-excitation models to evaluate the sensitivity of several physical observables to the inclusion of a multifragmentation st…
Influence of nuclear de-excitation on observables relevant for space exploration
Davide Mancusi, Alain Boudard, Joseph Cugnon +2
The composition of the space radiation environment inside spacecrafts is modified by the interaction with shielding material, with equipment and even with the astronauts' bodies. A…
Unified description of fission in fusion and spallation reactions
Davide Mancusi, Robert J. Charity, Joseph Cugnon
We present a statistical-model description of fission, in the framework of compound-nucleus decay, which is found to simultaneously reproduce data from both heavy-ion-induced fusio…