J.F. Lecolley

Bio: J.F. Lecolley is an academic researcher from Centre national de la recherche scientifique. The author has contributed to research in topics: Nucleon & Neutron. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 39 publications receiving 960 citations.

Response of CsI(Tl) scintillators over a large range in energy and atomic number of ions. Part I: recombination and δ-electrons

Abstract: A simple formalism describing the light response of CsI(Tl) to heavy ions, which quantifies the luminescence and the quenching in terms of the competition between radiative transitions following the carrier trapping at the Tl activator sites and the electron–hole recombination, is proposed. The effect of the δ-rays on the scintillation efficiency is for the first time quantitatively included in a fully consistent way. The light output expression depends on four parameters determined by a procedure of global fit to experimental data.

Intranuclear cascade model for a comprehensive description of spallation reaction data

Abstract: A new version of the Li\`ege intranuclear cascade (INC) model is proposed for the description of spallation reactions. Compared to the previous version, it incorporates new features: (i) it can accommodate a diffuse nuclear surface, (ii) the treatment of the Pauli blocking effect is improved, removing unphysical features linked with the use of statistical blocking factors, (iii) collisions between moving spectator nucleons are explicitly suppressed, (iv) pion dynamics is improved, especially concerning the delta lifetime, (v) it can accommodate light ions as incoming projecticles, (vi) the remnant angular momentum is included in the output of the model. Another important feature is the self-consistent determination of the stopping time, i.e., the time at which the INC calculation is terminated and coupled to evaporation. The predictions of the model, used with the Schmidt evaporation code, are tested against a large body of experimental data, in the 200-MeV--2-GeV range for incident energy per nucleon, including total reaction cross sections, neutron, proton, pion, and composite double differential cross sections, particle multiplicities, residue mass and charge distributions, and residue recoil velocity distributions. Good agreement is generally obtained without additional varying parameters. It is shown that the introduction of a diffuse surface considerably improves the description of the total reaction cross sections, of the intensity of the quasielastic peak in proton and neutron double differential cross sections and of the residue production yield for isotopes close to the target. High energy neutron spectra are found to be sensitive to details of the deuteron structure in deuteron-induced reactions. The shape of the fragmentation peaks in residue mass spectra is shown to be closely related to the shape of the distribution of the excitation energy left after the cascade stage. The longitudinal residue recoil velocity and its fluctuations display typical random-walk characterics, which are interpreted as a direct consequence of the independence of successive binary collisions occurring during the cascade process and therefore provide a strong support of the basic hypotheses of the INC model. Small but systematic discrepancies between model predictions and experiment are identified and possible further improvements to reduce them are discussed. The influence of the evaporation model is investigated. A comparison with similar approaches is presented.

Energy Levels of Light Nuclei A =1 6

Abstract: An evaluation of A = 16{17 was published in Nuclear Physics A565 (1993), p. 1. This version of A = 16 diers from the published version in that we have corrected some errors discovered after the article went to press. It has also been slightly revised as of May 16 ,200 0t oinclud ehyperlink sfo rreference san dtables. Introductor ytables have been omitted from this manuscript. Also, Reference key numbers have been changed to the NNDC/TUNL format.

Collective flow in heavy-ion collisions

Abstract: ▪ Abstract We provide an overview of collective flow phenomena observed in heavy ion collisions from the Fermi energy range up to CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) energies. We summarize the experimental data in terms of the various observed aspects of flow, namely directed flow in the reaction plane, elliptic flow in- and out-of-plane, and azimuthally symmetric radial flow originating from the expansion of the hot and compressed reaction zone. Also reviewed are the theoretical concepts developed to simulate the complex reactions with the aim of extracting fundamental properties of hot and compressed nuclear matter.