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Based on the modified isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics model, the number of emitted nucleons in a photonuclear reaction is studied with different symmetry potentials and different isospin-dependent nucleon-nucleon (N—N) collision cross sections. It is found that the number of emitted nucleons is sensitive to the isospin-dependent nucleon-nucleon cross section when the photon's energy is higher than 150MeV, while it is insensitive to symmetry potential. The number of emitted neutrons is more sensitive to N—N collision cross sections than that of protons. It is realized that the number of emitted neutrons can be used as a sensitive probe to extract the information of the isospin-dependent N—N cross section at high energy photonuclear reactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on both very obvious isospin effect of the neutron-proton number ratio of nucleon emissions (n/p)nucl on symmetry potential and (n/p)nucl's sensitive dependence on symmetry potential in the nuclear reactions induced by halo-neutron projectiles, compared to the same mass stable projectile, probing symmetry potential is investigated within the isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics with isospin and momentum-dependent interactions for different symmetry potentials U1sym and U2sym. It is found that the neutron-halo projectile induces very obvious increase of (n/p)nucl and strengthens the dependence of (n/p)nucl on the symmetry potential for all the beam energies and impact parameters, compared to the same mass stable projectile under the same incident channel condition. Therefore (n/p)nucl induced by the neutron-halo projectile is a more favourable probe than the normal neutron-rich and neutron-poor projectiles for extracting the symmetry potential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]