https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612204005
Application of JAERI quantum molecular dynamics model for collisions of heavy nuclei
1 Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken, Japan, 319-1195
2 Research Organization for Information Science and Technology, 2-4 Shirakata, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken, Japan, 319-1195
a e-mail: ogawa.tatsuhiko@jaea.go.jp
Published online: 21 June 2016
The quantum molecular dynamics (QMD) model incorporated into the general-purpose radiation transport code PHITS was revised for accurate prediction of fragment yields in peripheral collisions. For more accurate simulation of peripheral collisions, stability of the nuclei at their ground state was improved and the algorithm to reject invalid events was modified. In-medium correction on nucleon-nucleon cross sections was also considered. To clarify the effect of this improvement on fragmentation of heavy nuclei, the new QMD model coupled with a statistical decay model was used to calculate fragment production cross sections of Ag and Au targets and compared with the data of earlier measurement. It is shown that the revised version can predict cross section more accurately.
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