Intranuclear cascade model for cluster production reactions

The intranuclear cascade model is used to describe cluster production in intermediate-energy nucleon-nucleus reactions. Although a great deal of effort has been made toward unraveling the cluster formation mechanism, its dynamical and quantitative aspects are still controversial. The emission of a cluster is governed mainly by the indirect-knockout and indirect-pickup (or coalescence) processes. To describe these two processes, nucleon correlation is introduced into the initial and final state in the model. The resulting double differential cross sections for proton-induced light-cluster (p, d, t, 3He, α) production reactions are demonstrated to be in good agreement with experimental results. (author)