TY  - JOUR
AU  - Filges, D.
AU  - Goldenbaum, F.
AU  - Enke, M.
AU  - Galin, J.
AU  - Herbach, H. M.
AU  - Hilscher, D.
AU  - Jahnke, U.
AU  - Letourneau, A.
AU  - Lott, B.
AU  - Neef, R.-D.
AU  - Nüringhoff, K.
AU  - Paul, N.
AU  - Peghaire, A.
AU  - Pienkowski, L.
AU  - Schaal, H.
AU  - Schroeder, U.
AU  - Sterzenbach, G.
AU  - Tietze, A.
AU  - Tishchenko, V.
AU  - Toke, J.
AU  - Wohlmuther, M.
TI  - Spallation neutron production and the current intra-nuclear cascade and transport codes
JO  - The European physical journal / A
VL  - 11
SN  - 1434-6001
CY  - Berlin
PB  - Springer
M1  - PreJuSER-34213
SP  - 467 - 490
PY  - 2001
N1  - Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012
AB  - A recent renascent interest in energetic proton-induced production of neutrons originates largely from the inception of projects for target stations of intense spallation neutron sources, like the planned European Spallation Source (ESS), accelerator-driven nuclear reactors, nuclear waste transmutation, and also from the application for radioactive beams. In the framework of such a neutron production, of major importance is the search for ways for the most efficient conversion of the primary beam energy into neutron production. Although the issue has been quite successfully addressed experimentally by varying the incident proton energy for various target materials and by covering a huge collection of different target geometries -providing an exhaustive matrix of benchmark data- the ultimate challenge is to increase the predictive power of transport codes currently on the market. To scrutinize these codes, calculations of reaction cross-sections, hadronic interaction lengths, average neutron multiplicities, neutron multiplicity and energy distributions, and the development of hadronic showers are confronted with recent experimental data of the NESSI collaboration. Program packages like HERMES, LCS or MCNPX master the prevision of reaction cross-sections, hadronic interaction lengths, averaged neutron multiplicities and neutron multiplicity distributions in thick and thin targets for a wide spectrum of incident proton energies, geometrical shapes and materials of the target generally within less than 10% deviation, while production cross-section measurements for light charged particles on thin targets point out that appreciable distinctions exist within these models.
KW  - J (WoSType)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000172358100012
DO  - DOI:10.1007/s100500170058
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/34213
ER  -