Integral cross section measurement of the 12C(n,p)12B reaction

Abstract

The integral cross section of the #^{12}C(n, p)#^{12}B reaction was measured at the neutron time of flight facility n_TOF at CERN, from the reaction threshold at 13.6 MeV up to 10 GeV, by means of the combined activation and a time-of-flight technique. The integral result is expressed as the number of #^{12}B nuclei produced per single pulse of the neutron beam. A simple integral expression is given for calculating the number of produced #^{12}B nuclei from any given evaluated cross section and/or model prediction.