<p>The reaction cross section gives the probability that a particle will undergo a nonelastic process when passing through a nuclear medium. Therefore reaction cross section data are of importance both for theoretical studies and for applications in such diverse fields as medicine, biology, astrophysics and accelerator-driven transmutation of nuclear waste.</p><p>There exist many data sets with angular distributions of elastic scattering, but very few measurements of the complementary reaction cross section have been performed. The measurement is in principle simple but has in practice proved to be very difficult to perform, and the relatively limited amount of experimental data displays some serious inconsistencies.</p><p>Results from measurements of reaction cross sections are presented for:</p><p>• <sup>3</sup>He on <sup>9</sup>Be, <sup>12</sup>C, <sup>16</sup>O, <sup>28</sup>Si, <sup>40</sup>Ca, <sup>58,60</sup>Ni, <sup>112,116,118,120,124</sup>Sn and <sup>208</sup>Pb at 96, 138 and 167 MeV</p><p>• protons on <sup>12</sup>C, <sup>40</sup>Ca, <sup>90</sup>Zr and <sup>208</sup>Pb at six energies in the energy range 80-180 MeV, and on </p><p><sup>58</sup>Ni at 81 MeV. </p><p>Experimental uncertainties were 3-9% for <sup>3</sup>He and 1.5-8% for protons.</p><p>The apparatus and the experimental method used for the measurements of reaction cross sections, using a modified attenuation technique, is described. The detection method enables simultaneous measurements of reaction cross sections for five different sizes of the solid angles in steps from 99.0 to 99.8% of the total solid angle. The final results are obtained by extrapolation to the full solid angle.</p><p>Experimental results are compared with predictions from optical model calculations using phenomenological global optical potentials.</p><p>Phenomenological parametrizations of reaction cross sections for scattering of projectiles on targets are presented. The parametrizations show that reaction cross sections are very sensitive to matter distributions at very large radii of both the projectile and the target. For protons the derived relations makes it possible to predict the reaction cross sections on targets for which no experimental data exist.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:uu-5813 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Lantz, Mattias |
| Publisher | Uppsala University, Department of Nuclear and Particle Physics, Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary, text |
| Relation | Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology, 1651-6214 ; 57 |
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