New developments in INC model for medical application(<Special Issue>Contribution to 21 Century Intelligent Technologies and Bioinformatics)

Abstract

We propose a model to describe cluster productions within the framework of the intranuclear cascade (INC) model. In our model, combination of the "surface coalescence" and the "knockout" is implemented to describe cluster productions in intermediate energy nuclear reactions. In the present work, the basic ingredients of our INC model are defined and applied to nucleon and cluster productions for the proton-nucleus reactions. Our INC model gives a good overall agreement with experimental data, not only double-differential cross sections of nucleon productions but also cluster productions at intermediate energies. Influence of introduction of the cluster production mechanisms is investigated.