THEORETICAL CALCULATION OF MEDIUM-ENERGY PROTON-INDUCED REACTIONS ON Al, Zr, AND PbNational Nuclear Data Center Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973 USA M. Divadeenam, T.E. Ward Neutral Beam Division Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973 USA The intranuclear cascade model of nuclear reactions was used to calculate double differential cross sections for the (p,xn) reaction. The calculations were performed with a generalized version of the code VEGAS, CLUST. Model predictions are compared with recent experimental data. Calculated fast-particle spectral shapes at low angles are reproduced reasonably well for the experimental data. As one possible improvement to the model, the proton reaction cross sections were estimated independently using the prescriptions of Karol, and DeVries and Peng. The systematic trends that emerge from this analysis are discussed. |