Application of multistep compound and multistep direct models for data evaluation

摘要

We have implemented the quantum mechanical multistep compound (MSC) and multistep direct (MSD) theories of Feshbach, Kerman, and Koonin (FKK) for the calculation of nucleon-induced multistep reactions. Our code system, FKK-GNASH, uses the FKK theory for primary preequilibrium emission and describes subsequent equilibrium emission using the Hauser-Feshbach code GNASH. The MSC contribution yields emitted particles with angular distributions symmetric about ninety degrees, whereas the MSD contribution, calculated by averaging DWBA cross sections for particle-hole excitations in the continuum, results in forward-peaked preequilibrium emission. The original picture of the evolution of the reaction, as described by FKK, is modified to allow transitions from the MSD to MSC chain. This modification is consistent with semiclassical preequilibrium descriptions, and allows a good description of preequilibrium spectra and angular distributions for a range of different reactions. As an example of our methodology, we calculate (sup 93)Nb(n,n') reactions at 14, 20 and 26 MeV, and (sup 93)Nb(n,p) at 14 MeV, comparing our results with experimental data. Use of the FKK theory has the advantage that preequilibrium calculations are based on rigorous physical principles, and (unlike semiclassical approaches) allow a good description of angular distributions. We argue that our implementation of the FKK theory maximizes the level of predictability, which is needed for data evaluations.