Deuteron breakup effects on activation cross sections at low and medium energies

Abstract

An extended analysis of the reaction mechanisms involved in the deuterons interaction with light and medium nuclei, 27Al and 63,65Cu, at incident energies from 3 to 60 MeV starting with elastic scattering until the evaporation from fully equilibrated compound system is presented. An increased attention is devoted to the breakup mechanism, all its components, the elastic, inelastic (fusion), and total breakup, being carefully analysed. Moreover, the corresponding stripping mechanism contribution to the (d, p) and (d, n) reaction cross sections through population of the discrete levels of the residual nuclei, was calculated. Finally, following the decay path, the pre-equilibrium and evaporation cross sections, corrected for the breakup and stripping decrease of the total reaction cross section, have completed the deuteron activation cross sections analysis. The overall agreement between the measured data and model calculations proves the correctness of nuclear mechanism description taken into account for the deuteron-nucleus interaction. © 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd.