Cross sections of deuteron induced nuclear reactions on metal targets

Abstract

Abstract. In the frame of a systematic study activation cross sections of a few hundred deuteron induced reactions were measured up to 50 MeV on 25 metal targets having mostly natural isotopic composition. The majority of them have been measured for the first time. The recently measured data are still in the evaluation process. The experimental data were compared to the predictions of different theoretical codes. For better description developments of the theoretical models are in progress. The measured data find application in medical radioisotope production, thin layer activation and accelerator technology.

Charged particle induced reaction cross section data for production of the emerging medically important positron emitter 64Cu: A comprehensive evaluation

“…The data reported by Hilgers et al [33] are very discrepant and inconsistent, particularly near the threshold of the reaction. The measured cross section data of Tárkányi et al [41] have high uncertainties which are attributed to poor statistics. However, this work provides cross sections over a wide energy region, i.e.…”

“…The references to experimental cross section measurements [33,[39][40][41] considered in the evaluation are also given in Table 1.…”

“…All the measured cross sections [33,[39][40][41] were adjusted according to the new decay data of 64 Cu (see above). The data reported by Hilgers et al [33] are very discrepant and inconsistent, particularly near the threshold of the reaction.…”

Validation and upgrading of the recommended cross section data of charged particle monitor reactions

“…New experiments were performed on Ti and Cu targets stacked together and the nat Ti(α,x) 51 Cr, nat Cu(α,x) 66 Ga, nat Cu(α,x) 67 Ga and nat Cu(α,x) 65 Zn reactions were cross checked. Additional data were found which were measured on copper and used as monitor reactions in other independents experiments [6][7][8], therefore only the shape information of the excitation functions was used in the evaluation process. In the light of these new results the recommended cross sections for nat Ti(α,x) 51 Cr, nat Cu(α,x) 66 Ga and nat Cu(α,x) 65 Zn reactions were confirmed while in the case of the nat Cu(α,x) 67 Ga reaction a new spline fit was calculated and given as new recommended cross sections.…”

Nuclear data measurement and compilation for thin layer activation

“…The investigated elements/materials are: boron [8,9], beryllium [10], aluminum, chromium, copper [15], iron [17,19], molybdenum [25], niobium [11,16], nickel, titanium [12], tungsten [20,36], zinc [22,27], cadmium [34], iridium [28,36], platinum [23,24,31], silver [29,37], tin [33], palladium [38], lead [39], zirconium [21], yttrium [30], rubidium [13,14] and tantalum [18,26]. The nuclear reactions investigated cover the most common light particle induced reactions available at medium energy accelerators, such as proton, deuteron, 3 He and alpha particle induced reactions.…”