MCNP6 Study of Spallation Products from 500 MeV p + 136Xe

Abstract

Isotope production cross sections from the 500 MeV p + 136Xe interactions measured recently at GSI in inverse kinematics have been simulated with MCNP6 using the CEM03.03 event generator. MCNP6 reproduces reasonably well most of the measured cross sections. However, the isotopes with a charge number greater than the charge number on the target by two units is overestimated significantly by CEM03.03. We found also an underestimation for the production of isotopes in the deep spallation region, far from the target-nucleus. Further investigations and further improvement of CEM03.03 with a possible consideration of multifragmentation and fission-like binary decays are needed in order to predict well products from intermediate- and high-energy nuclear reactions far from the target-nuclei, in the deep spallation and fragmentation regions