Use of Monte Carlo techniques to derive yields for n+¹²C multibody breakup reactions: Programming the computer to simulate collisions by fast neutrons Free

A computer ‘‘experiment’’ using Monte Carlo sampling methods has been designed to simulate the breaking up of ¹²C by medium‐energy neutrons into final reaction channels having 2, 3, or 4 outgoing charged particles. The calculational nuclear physics concept used in the ‘‘experiment’’ is one of a sequentially decaying, highly excited compound nucleus. Two methods of Monte Carlo sampling, the rejection method and the cumulative‐distribution method, are discussed as applied to probability functions developed in the program.