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The cross sections for the spallation of the heavy-metal nuclei 181Ta, 197Au, 207Pb, 209Bi, 232Th, and 238U induced by relativistic deuterons with energies of 2, 2.94, and 3.5 GeV per nucleon are measured using the deuteron beam from the Nuclotron accelerator of the JINR Laboratory of High Energy Physics in Dubna, Russia. The cross-section measurements employ a combined experimental technique involving the solidstate nuclear-track detectors and the activation gamma spectrometry. Adding our measurements to the database of experimental nuclear data will make it possible to test the computer codes used for selecting the parameters of the ADS-type facilities.
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Original Russian Text © M.Yu. Artyushenko, A.A. Baldin, A.I. Berlev, O.V. Bukhal, V.A. Voronko, K.V. Gusak, I.V. Zhuk, I.V. Kudashkin, M. Paraipan, A.S. Potapenko, A.A. Safronova, V.V. Sotnikov, S.I. Tyutyunnikov, 2016, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Fizika Elementarnykh Chastits i Atomnogo Yadra, 2016.
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Artyushenko, M.Y., Baldin, A.A., Berlev, A.I. et al. Measuring the cross sections of heavy-metal spallation induced by deuterons with energies of 2, 2.94, and 3.5 GeV per nucleon. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 13, 466–470 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477116040026
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