Experimental study on breakup reaction of beryllium and carbon induced with 14-MeV neutrons based on emitted charged-particle measurements

Kondo, Keitaro; Murata, Isao*; Ochiai, Kentaro; Miyamaru, Hiroyuki*; Kubota, Naoyoshi*; Konno, Chikara  ; Nishitani, Takeo

Beryllium and carbon are candidate materials of fusion reactors and the Be(n,2n+2) and C(n,n'+3) reactions are important from engineering requirements. In order to estimate double-differential cross sections (DDX) for emitted particles, we have to accurately grasp details of the reaction mechanism. Understanding of the reaction mechanism is also interesting from a viewpoint of nuclear physics. Recently we developed a new spectrometry system with a pencil-beam DT neutron source. Using the system, we carried out detailed measurements of DDX for -particles emitted from beryllium and carbon. The reaction mechanism was investigated by a Monte Carlo calculation of DDX. For the Be(n,2n+2) reaction, the result suggests importance of the contribution from the Be(n,)He*(Ex1.8MeV) reaction. For the C(n,n'+3) reaction, the contribution from the C(n,)Be*(Ex2.43MeV) reaction was appeared and its ratio was investigated to explain the shape of DDX for neutrons in lower energy.