Determination of integral cross sections of 3H in Al foils monitors irradiated by protons with energies ranging from 40 to 2600 MeV

TL;DR

This study measures the cross sections of tritium production in aluminum foils irradiated by protons across a broad energy range, comparing experimental results with simulations to improve understanding of nuclear reactions.

Contribution

It provides new experimental cross section data for tritium production in aluminum over a wide proton energy range and compares these with simulation models.

Findings

Experimental cross sections align with some existing data and simulations.

Data covers a broad energy range from 40 to 2600 MeV.

Results help validate and improve nuclear reaction models.

Abstract

Results of t production in Al foil monitors are presented. These foils have been irradiated by protons of different energies in a range of 0.04 - 2.6 GeV. The irradiations were carried out at the ITEP accelerator U-10 under the ISTC Project 3266 during 2006 - 2009. t has been extracted from Al foils using an A307 Sample Oxidizer. The values of the Al(p,x)t cross sections obtained in these experiments are compared with data measured at other laboratories and with results of simulations by the MCNP6 radiation transport code using the CEM03.03 event generator.