Excitation Function for theAl27(d, αp)Na24

Investigation of the 27Al(d,x)24Na nuclear reaction for deuteron beam monitoring purpose

“…Measured data were critically compared with the available literature data and found an overall good agreement with some of the earlier measurements, whereas other shows a partial agreement. The IAEA recommended cross-sections for 27 Al(d,x) 24 Na nuclear reaction was verified by the present investigation. The IAEA recommended cross-sections for 27 Al(d,x) 24 Na reaction show systematically lower values in the whole energy region, while the extracted data from the TENDL-2015 show slightly higher values than our measured data.…”

“…The IAEA recommended cross-sections for 27 Al(d,x) 24 Na nuclear reaction was verified by the present investigation. The IAEA recommended cross-sections for 27 Al(d,x) 24 Na reaction show systematically lower values in the whole energy region, while the extracted data from the TENDL-2015 show slightly higher values than our measured data. It is suggested that the use of IAEA recommended 27 Al (d,x) 24 Na cross-sections should not be a perfect choice and/or it demands a revision to be used as beam monitoring process.…”

“…Numerous authors [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27] have already investigated the 27 Al(d,x) 24 Na reaction due to its importance in the beam monitoring applications. 24 Na nuclear reaction.…”

“…Activation cross-sections of the 27 Al(d,x) 24 Na reaction were measured in the energy range of 3-24 MeV using a stacked-foil activation technique with an overall ND2016 uncertainty of better than 7%. The cross-sections were normalized by using the nat Ti(d,x) 48 V monitor crosssections recommended by the IAEA.…”

“…Error-bars are omitted for the experimental data taken from the EXFOR library for better visibility. Furthermore, the recommended cross-sections by Takacs et al [13] for 27 Al(d,x) 24 Na reaction is also potted in Fig. 2 for comparison. The population of the ground state 24g Na (T 1/2 = 14.997 h) is contributed by the direct reactions presented in Table 1, and by an IT decay (b I T = 99.95%) of its short-lived isomeric state 24m Na (T 1/2 =20.18 ms) within our investigated energy region.…”