Author: National Aeronaut Administration (Nasa)

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Published: 2020-07-28

Total Pages: 28

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Space radiation transport codes require accurate models for hadron production in intermediate energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. Codes require cross sections to be written in terms of lab frame variables and it is important to be able to verify models against experimental data in the lab frame. Several models are compared to lab frame data. It is found that models based on algebraic parameterizations are unable to describe intermediate energy differential cross section data. However, simple thermal model parameterizations, when appropriately transformed from the center of momentum to the lab frame, are able to account for the data. Norbury, John W. and Blattnig, Steve R. Langley Research Center NASA/TP-2008-215544, L-19385 WBS 651549.02.07.01 MESONS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL RADIATION; SCATTERING CROSS SECTIONS; RADIATION TRANSPORT; NUCLEAR INTERACTIONS; PARAMETERIZATION; PIONS; HADRONS