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Article Dans Une Revue Eur.Phys.J.A Année : 2017

On the role of secondary pions in spallation targets

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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 photons from thick spallation targets. In particular, for the n_TOF lead spallation target, irradiated with 20 GeV/c protons, neutral pions are involved in the production of $ \sim 90\%$ of the high-energy photons, charged pions participate in $\sim 40\%$ of the integral neutron yield. Nevertheless, photon and neutron yields are shown to be relatively insensitive to large changes of the average pion multiplicity in the individual spallation reactions. We characterize this robustness as a peculiar property of hadronic cascades in thick targets.

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hal-01554313 , version 1 (03-07-2017)

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Davide Mancusi, Sergio Lo Meo, Nicola Colonna, Alain Boudard, Miguel Antonio Cortés-Giraldo, et al.. On the role of secondary pions in spallation targets. Eur.Phys.J.A, 2017, 53 (5), pp.80. ⟨10.1140/epja/i2017-12263-0⟩. ⟨hal-01554313⟩
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