A Monte Carlo model of deuteron emission in pre-equilibrium nuclear reactions

Abstract

Nucleon-induced pre-equilibrium reactions are important in many applications of nuclear physics. About 20% of the particles emitted in such reactions are composites, such as deuterons and alpha particles. Deuterons are produced through emission from the compound nucleus, as well as through two important direct reaction mechanisms - “pick-up” and coalescence. Iwamoto and Harada developed a semi-classical pre-equilibrium model that describes both direct mechanisms as a generalization of coalescence. We have implemented the Iwamato and Harada unified model of deuteron emission in Blann and Chadwick’s hybrid Monte Carlo model. This implementation was made in order to analyse data of reactions of the type (p,d), that is, proton induced reactions having deuterons as emitted particles, but our previous results were not satisfactory. In order to find a new approach for the deuteron emission, we are investigating an eikonal approximation to the phase space of Iwamoto and Harada model. We are also comparing our angular distributions with the experimental ones using DWUCK4. Nevertheless, our results are not satisfactory yet and our work is under development.