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Spallation reactions: A successful interplay between modeling and applications

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The spallation reactions are a type of nuclear reaction which occur in space by interaction of the cosmic rays with interstellar bodies. The first spallation reactions induced with an accelerator took place in 1947 at the Berkeley cyclotron (University of California) with 200MeV deuterons and 400MeV alpha beams. They highlighted the multiple emission of neutrons and charged particles and the production of a large number of residual nuclei far different from the target nuclei. In the same year, R. Serber described the reaction in two steps: a first and fast one with high-energy particle emission leading to an excited remnant nucleus, and a second one, much slower, the de-excitation of the remnant. In 2010 IAEA organized a workshop to present the results of the most widely used spallation codes within a benchmark of spallation models. If one of the goals was to understand the deficiencies, if any, in each code, one remarkable outcome points out the overall high-quality level of some models and so the great improvements achieved since Serber. Particle transport codes can then rely on such spallation models to treat the reactions between a light particle and an atomic nucleus with energies spanning from few tens of MeV up to some GeV. An overview of the spallation reactions modeling is presented in order to point out the incomparable contribution of models based on basic physics to numerous applications where such reactions occur. Validations or benchmarks, which are necessary steps in the improvement process, are also addressed, as well as the potential future domains of development. Spallation reactions modeling is a representative case of continuous studies aiming at understanding a reaction mechanism and which end up in a powerful tool.

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Jean-Christophe David is a nuclear physicist. He worked on strangeness photoproduction off proton during his thesis (defended at the University of Lyon in 1994) and extended his model to electroproduction at the CEA/Saclay (1995). He spent six years modeling research reactors (CEA/Grenoble (Siloë) and CEA/Saclay (Osiris)), and went back to basic physics in 2001, to study spallation reactions (CEA/Saclay). From modeling to applications was his credo. He obtained a habilitation thesis (HDR) in 2012 and his point of view on the studies dealing with spallation reactions is presented in this article.

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