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The proton analyzing power in carbon has been measured for energies of 82 to 217 MeV and proton scattering angles of 5 to 41 degrees. The measurements were carried out using polarized protons from the elastic scattering H(pol. e, pol. p) reaction and the Focal Plane Polarimeter (FPP) in Hall A of Jefferson Lab. A new parameterization of the FPP p-C analyzing power was fit to the data, which is in good agreement with previous parameterizations and provides an extension to lower energies and larger angles. The main conclusions are that all polarimeters to date give consistent measurements of the carbon analyzing power, independently of the details of their construction and that measuring on a larger angular range significantly improves the polarimeter figure of merit at low energies.
New precise unpolarised differential cross sections of deuteron-proton elastic scattering have been measured at 16 different deuteron beam momenta between $p_d = 3120.17;textrm{MeV}/c$ and $p_d =3204.16;textrm{MeV}/c$ at the COoler SYnchrotron COSY of the Forschungszentrum Julich. The data, which were taken using the magnetic spectrometer ANKE, cover the equivalent range in proton kinetic energies from $T_p = 882.2;textrm{MeV}$ to $T_p = 918.3;textrm{MeV}$. The experimental results are analysed theoretically using the Glauber diffraction model with accurate nucleon-nucleon input. The theoretical cross section at $T_p = 900;textrm{MeV}$ agrees very well with the experimental one at low momentum transfers $|t| <0.2;(textrm{GeV}/c)^2$.
The cross sections for the formation of five residual radionuclides (72Se, 97Zr, 112Pd, 125Sb, and 147Nb) from 40- to 200-MeV proton irradiation of thorium have been measured and are reported. The atomic masses of these fragments span the expected mass distribution of radionuclides formed by fission of the target nucleus. Especially in mass regions corresponding to transitions between different relaxation mechanisms employed by available models, these data are expected to be useful to the improvement of high-energy transport codes. The predictions of the event generators incorporated into the latest release of the Monte Carlo N-Particle code (MCNP6) are compared with data measured in this work in the hope that these results may be useful to the continued process of code verification and validation in MCNP6.
Kr83m with a short lifetime is an ideal calibration source for liquid xenon or liquid argon detector. The 83mKr isomer can be generated through the decay of Rb83 isotope, and Rb83 is usually produced by proton beams bombarding natural krypton atoms. In this paper, we report a successful production of Rb83/Kr83m with 3.4 MeV proton beam energy and measure the production rate with such low proton energy for the first time. Another production attempt was performed with newly available 20 MeV proton beam in China, the production rate is consistent with our expectation. The produced Kr83m source has been successfully injected into PandaX-II liquid xenon detector and yielded enough statistics for detector calibration.
New data on both total and differential cross sections of the production of $eta$ mesons in proton-deuteron fusion to ${}^3text{He},eta$ in the excess energy region $13.6;text{MeV}leq Q_eta leq 80.9;text{MeV}$ are presented. These data have been obtained with the WASA-at-COSY detector setup located at the Forschungszentrum Julich, using a proton beam at 15 different beam momenta between $p_p = 1.60;text{GeV}/c$ and $p_p = 1.74;text{GeV}/c$. While significant structure of the total cross section is observed in the energy region $20;text{MeV}lesssim Q_eta lesssim 60;text{MeV}$, a previously reported sharp variation around $Q_etaapprox 50;text{MeV}$ cannot be confirmed. Angular distributions show the typical forward-peaking that was reported elsewhere. For the first time, it is possible to study the development of these angular distributions with rising excess energy over a large interval.
A deuteron beam polarimeter has been constructed at the Internal Target Station at the Nuclotron of JINR. The polarimeter is based on spin-asymmetry measurements in the d-p elastic scattering at large angles and the deuteron kinetic energy of 270 MeV. It allows to measure vector and tensor components of the deuteron beam polarization simultaneously.