Experimental and Computer Simulation Study of Radioactivity of Materials Irradiated by Intermediate Energy Protons

Titarenko, Yu. E.; Shvedov, O. V.; Batyaev, V. F.; Karpikhin, E. I.; Zhivun, V. M.; Mulambetov, R. D.; Mashnik, S. G.; Prael, R. E.; Wilson, W. B.

Experimental and Computer Simulation Study of Radioactivity of Materials Irradiated by Intermediate Energy Protons

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The results of measurements and computer simulations of radioactivities and dose rates as functions of decay time are presented for Pb-nat and Bi-209 irradiated by 1.5-GeV protons, Co-59, Cu-63, and Cu-65 irradiated by 0.13- and 1.2-GeV protons, and Th-232 and U-nat irradiated by 0.1- and 0.8-GeV protons. The activities and dose rates are measured by direct high-precision gamma spectrometry. The irradiations were made using external beams extracted from the ITEP U-10 proton synchrotron. Simulations made using the LCS and CINDER'90 code systems are compared with measurements.
9 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, LaTeX, submitted to the 3rd Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerators Technology (AccApp'99), ANS 1999 Winter Meeting, Long Beach, CA, November 14-18, 1999