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An iterative procedure to obtain inverse response functions for thick-target correction of measured charged-particle spectra
A new method for correcting charged-particle spectra for thick target effects
is described. Starting with a trial function, inverse response functions are
found by an iterative procedure. The variances corresponding to the measured
spectrum are treated similiarly and in parallel. Oscillations of the solution
are avoided by rebinning the data to finer bins during a correction iteration
and back to the original or wider binning after each iteration. This
thick-target correction method has been used for data obtained with the MEDLEY
facility at the The Svedberg Laboratory, Uppsala, Sweden, and is here presented
in detail and demonstrated for two test cases.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures, submitted to NIM
Light-ion Production And Fission Studies Using The Medley Facility At Tsl
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Measurement of the Absolute Differential Cross Section for np Elastic Scattering at 194 MeV
A tagged medium-energy neutron beam has been used in a precise measurement of
the absolute differential cross section for np back-scattering. The results
resolve significant discrepancies within the np database concerning the angular
dependence in this regime. The experiment has determined the absolute
normalization with 1.5% uncertainty, suitable to verify constraints of
supposedly comparable precision that arise from the rest of the database in
partial wave analyses. The analysis procedures, especially those associated
with evaluation of systematic errors in the experiment, are described in detail
so that systematic uncertainties may be included in a reasonable way in
subsequent partial wave analysis fits incorporating the present results.Comment: 22 pages, 21 figures, submitted for publication in Physical Review
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