Abstract

We study multiple preequilibrium emission in nucleon induced reactions at intermediate energies, and compare quantum molecular dynamics (QMD) calculations with multistep-direct Feshbach-Kerman-Koonin results [M. B. Chadwick, P. G. Young, D. C. George, and Y. Watanabe, Phys. Rev. C 50, 996 (1994)]. When the theoretical expressions of this reference are reformulated so that the definitions of primary and multiple emission correspond to those used in QMD, the two theories yield similar results for primary and multiple preequilibrium emission. We use QMD as a tool to determine the multiplicities of fast preequilibrium nucleons as a function of incident energy. For fast particle cross sections to exceed 5% of the inclusive preequilibrium emission cross sections we find that two particles should be included in reactions above 50 MeV, three above about 180 MeV, and four are only needed when the incident energy exceeds about 400 MeV.

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