Proton and Neutron Inclusive Spectra and the Importance of the Single Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering Process
Abstract
Comparison of inclusive neutron and proton spectra from 90-MeV protons on 27Al, 58Ni, 90Zr, and 209Bi indicate that single nucleon-nucleon scattering dominates the highenergy regions of forward-angle continuum spectra. The ratios of cross sections observed agree with ratios expected for scattering of the incident proton by a bound target nucleon. For 27Al, a plane-wave-impulse-approximation quasifree-scattering calculation fits forward-angle proton and neutron spectra simultaneously with the same normalization.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- January 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.46.226
- Bibcode:
- 1981PhRvL..46..226A
- Keywords:
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- 25.40.Eb;
- 25.40.Cm;
- Elastic proton scattering