The Reaction ^1H(^28Si,A)x at 80 MeV/nucleon

Differential cross sections of charged fragments near 0 degrees were measured for the ^1H(^28Si,A)x reaction at 80 MeV/nucleon, using the A1200 zero degree spectrometer at NSCL.footnote G.A. Souliotis et al., Phys. Rev. C46, 1383 (1992) CH₂ and C targets were used. The fragments detected ranged from A=5 through A=28. Results are compared with the intranuclear cascade-statistical model.(H.H.K. Tang et al., Phys. Rev. C42, 1598 (1990)) We also present results for the ^12C(^28Si,A) reaction at 80 MeV/nucleon. The overall objective is to characterize the heavy recoils in proton-induced reactions and to complement previous studies of light ions from reactions like ^28Si(p,x).(H.H.K. Tang, IBM J. Res. Dev. (1996) (in press)) Due to applications such as single event upsets in microelectronic systems and dosimetry problems in particle beam-based radiology, there are new demands for recoil data, especially in the energy regime around 100 MeV/nucleon. This work demonstrates the feasibility of reverse kinematics as an accurate means to obtain recoil spectra. This is also the first experiment of a projected program involving similar measurements using O, N and C beams.