PROCESSING OF MULTI-CHANNEL-ANALYZER NUCLEAR REACTION SPECTRA WITH THE NEWDAC PROGRAM

A FORTRAN program is presented for processing pulse-height data for particles emitted from a nuclear reaction. The program corrects the particle energy for any absorber preceding the detector and computes the differential center-of-mass cross section as a function of the reaction Q value and the excitation energy of the final nucleus. The energies can be computed either relativistically or nonrelativistically. The program is written as a series of subroutines to facilitate possible expansion of the program and to allow easy accommodation of different data input routines. The output of the program is printed in tabular form and, at the discretion of the user, punched on cards for off-line plotting or for input to other programs. (auth