Modeling proton- and light ion-induced reactions at low energies in the MARS15 code

TL;DR

This paper presents the integration of ALICE and TENDL nuclear data into the MARS15 simulation code to improve modeling of low-energy proton and light ion reactions, validated against experimental data.

Contribution

It introduces a new implementation of nuclear reaction models and data libraries in MARS15 for low-energy projectiles, enhancing its predictive capabilities.

Findings

Good agreement with experimental reaction cross sections

Accurate secondary particle distribution predictions

Validated model performance at low energies

Abstract

An implementation of both ALICE code and TENDL evaluated nuclear data library in order to describe nuclear reactions induced by low-energy projectiles in the Monte Carlo code MARS15 is presented. Comparisons between results of modeling and experimental data on reaction cross sections and secondary particle distributions are shown.