EPJ Web of Conferences 8, 07012 (2010)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20100807012

Investigating the intra-nuclear cascade process using the reaction ¹³⁶Xe on deuterium at 500 AMeV

¹ Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
² Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
³ IPN Orsay, Université Paris-Sud 11, CNRS/IN2P3, 91406 Orsay Cedex, France
⁴ DAPNIA/SPhN, DSM-CEA, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
⁵ A.W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
⁶ GANIL, CEA/DSM-CNRS/IN2P3, BP. 55027, 14076 Caen Cedex 5, France

^a e-mail: juan.alcantara@usc.es

Abstract

More than 600 residual nuclei, formed in the spallation of ¹³⁶Xe projectiles impinging on deuterium at 500 AMeV of incident energy, have been unambiguously identified and their production cross sections have been determined with high accuracy. By comparing these data to others previously measured for the reactions ¹³⁶Xe  +  p at 1 AGeV and ¹³⁶Xe  +  p at 500 AMeV we investigated the role that neutrons play in peripheral collisions and to understand the energy dissipation in frontal collisions in spallation reactions.