Re: neutron production in p+p ?

From: Alfredo Ferrari <alfredo.ferrari_at_cern.ch>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:53:51 +0200

... you should see quite a bit of neutrons from reactions like:

pp -> pi+ pn (or d): at lower energies this is dominant
pp -> pi0pi+ pn (or d)
pp -> pi+pi+ nn

or higher multiplicities of pi's.

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            Alfredo

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On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Olaf Hartmann wrote:

> Dear FLUKA users,
>
> I took the example no. 3 from the FLUKA web page and tried to look to
> the particles coming out of the target (described in the attached input
> file). A proton beam hits a volume of hydrogen surrounded by vaccuum.
> I attached the kinetic energy spectra of particles with fluka number 1
> (JTRACK, i.e. protons) in black and number 8 (neutrons?) in red/hatched.
> For my taste I see too many of those neutrons (coming from a p+p
> reaction). Did I miss something in the input file?
>
> Cheers
> Olaf.
>
>
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