Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2010-01-28
Phys.Rev.C81:044604,2010
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.81.044604
Effects of difference in the spin and parity distributions for the surrogate and neutron-induced reactions are investigated. Without assuming specific (schematic) spin-parity distributions, it was found that the surrogate ratio method can be employed to determine neutron fission and capture cross sections if 1) weak Weisskopf-Ewing condition (defined in this paper) is satisfied, 2) there exist two surrogate reactions whose spin-parity distributions of the decaying nuclei are almost equivalent, and 3) difference of the representative spin values between the neutron-induced and surrogate reactions is no much larger than 10 $\hbar$. If these conditions are satisfied, we need not to know the spin-parity distributions populated by the surrogate method. Instead, we should just select a pair of surrogate reactions which will populate the similar spin-parity distributions, using targets having similar structure and reactions having the similar reaction mechanisms. Achievable accuracy is estimated to be around 5 and 10 % for fission and capture channels, respectively, for nuclei of the Uranium region. The surrogate absolute method, on the contrary, can be marginally applicable to determination of fission cross sections. However, there will be little hope to apply this method for capture cross section measurements unless the spin-parity distributions in the neutron-induced and surrogate reactions are fairly close to each other or the difference can be corrected theoretically. The surrogate ratio method was shown also to be a robust method in the presence of breakup reactions, again, without assuming specific breakup reaction mechanisms.
Chiba Satoshi
Iwamoto Osamu
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