Data Library of spallation products in proton induced reactions

PISA collaboration: V. Bollini, A. Bubak, D. Filges, F. Goldenbaum, K. Kilian, P. Kulessa, H. Machner, R.-D. Neef,
H. Ohm, N. Paul, K. Pysz, H. Schaal, R. Siudak (FZJ-Jülich); R. Czyżykiewicz, A. Heczko, L. Jarczyk, B. Kamys,
St. Kistryn, W. Klimala, A. Magiera, W. Migdał, B. Piskor-Ignatowicz, Z. Rudy, M. Wojciechowski (Jagellonian
Univ. Kraków); A. Budzanowski, M. Kistryn, St. Kliczewski (INP Kraków); J. Kisiel, E. Stephan, W. Zipper (Univ. Sile-
sia, Katowice); R. Barna, D. De Pasquale, A. Italiano (Messina Univ. and INFN, Messina); S. Förtsch, D. Steyn,
T. Thovhogi (NAC Faure); J. Cugnon (Univ. de Liege); H. Hodde (Univ. Bonn)

During the past many experiments provided a huge set of
production cross sections data in proton induced spallations
reactions. Unfortunatelly among collected data there are not
many cross sections for production of the lightest isotopes
such as hydrogen or helium. A collections of such data for
proton induced spallation processes in a wide energy range
(up to several GeV) on thin targets will allow to test the va-
lidity and improve the predictions of INC (Intranuclear Cas-
cade) and evaporation models currently available on the mar-
ket. Such data are also very important and essential for as-
sessment of material damage due to gas production and aris-
ing swellings or embrittlement. All this processes are very
important for ESS (European Spallation Source) target con-
stractions.
This was the motivation to start at the beginning of this
year the creation of a data base for hydrogen and helium
the target, proton energy of the projectile [MeV], error of the
proton energy [MeV], type of ejectile, atomic mass of the
nuclide, atomic number of the nuclide, total production cross
section [mb], error of the production cross section [mb], an-
gle, references, comments.
The whole database was orginally written in ”excel for-
mat” (Microsoft Excel) and in this format is further de-
veloped. Actually this database is also availabe for users
through the Web under address:
www.nuph.us.edu.pl/˜pisa/baza/sign.html
In order to make the data base accessible through the web
it was transfered to raw ASCII format.
cross section [mb]

production cross sections in the framework of the HIN- 24 - p(C,X)Li6

- p(C,X)Li7
DAS project (High and Intermediate energy Nuclear Data 22 - p(C,X)Li8
for Accelerator-driven Systems). Now this data base is - p(C,X)Li9
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a compilation of experimental cross sections for proton-
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induced isotope production at energies from a few MeV to
10 GeV. There are also some data for energies up to 30 16
GeV. Presently, for proton-induced reactions, this compila- 14
tion contains about 15,000 data points, for 38 targets of 50 12
elements. All data are derived from avaliable literature and 10
private communications.
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6
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cross section [mb]

800 - p(Al,X)He3
- p(Al,X)He4
2
- p(Fe,X)He3 0
700 - p(Fe,X)He4 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000
Energy of projectile [MeV]
600
Fig. 2: Example 2 of data available from the data base: total
500
cross sections for Li isotopes production as function
of incident proton energy.
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The users have two possibilities to select the data through
200 the web page. So called simple selection and second one,
more detailed, with more additional options. In the first case
100 selection is available only under one condition (e.g. ’Tar-
get’ or ’Proton energy of the projectile’). In the second one,
0 there is possibility of the selection under a few conditions
0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500
Energy of projectile [MeV] (e.g. ’Atomic mass of the target’ and ’Atomic number of
target’ and ’Type of ejectile’). After applaing selection the
Fig. 1: Example 1 of data available from the data base: total data will be displayed in web page format. Downloading the
cross sections for He isotopes production as function selected data is possible as well. The downloaded file is in
of incident proton energy. ASCII format. The library is continuously in progress and
frequently updated.
This work is supported by the BMBF-Verbundforschung,
Each record of the data base contains the following infor- the EU-LIFE program, the EU HINDAS project FIS5-1999-
mation: target, atomic mass of the target, atomic number of 00150, and the EU TMR project ERB-FMRX-CT98-0244.