Analysis of neutronic properties of spallation target materials

This study is focused on analysis of fundamental physical and neutronic properties of typical materials used for spallation target design. A set of calculations using TALYS code has been performed and results containing neutron yields for various target materials have been obtained. Additionally, two Monte Carlo codes MCNP and PHITS were compared via calculation of neutron spectra generated by 660 MeV proton beam interacting with spallation target.