Measurement of activation cross sections of the 27Al(n,α)24Na and 27Al(n,p)27Mg reactions with quasi-monoenergetic neutrons
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Muhammad Zaman
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Kwangsoo Kim
Abstract
The cross sections of the 27Al(n,α)24Na and 27Al(n,p)27Mg reactions with the average neutron energies of 15.2, 26.4, and 37.2 MeV were measured using the activation and off-line γ−ray spectrometric technique at the Korean Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences (KIRAMS), Korea. Quasi-monoenergetic neutrons produced via the 9Be(p,n) reaction with the proton beam energies of 25, 35, and 45 MeV from the MC50 cyclotron of KIRAMS were used. The present measured values were compared with those from the evaluated nuclear data libraries ENDF/B-VII, TENDL-2015, TALYS 1.8, and from literature. In general, a close agreement with the literature data as well as the evaluated data was found.
Acknowledgement
The authors are grateful to the staff of the MC-50 Cyclotron Laboratory in the Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences (KIRAMS) for the excellent operation and their support during the experiment. This research was partly supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) through a grant provided by the Korean Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) (NRF-2013R1A2A2A01067340), by the Dong-nam Institute of Radiological & Medical Sciences (DIRAMS) (50496-2016), and by the Institutional Activity Program of Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute.
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- Frontmatter
- Measurement of activation cross sections of the 27Al(n,α)24Na and 27Al(n,p)27Mg reactions with quasi-monoenergetic neutrons
- Luminescence of uranyl ion complexed with 2,6-pyridine dicarboxylic acid as ligand in acetonitrile medium: observation of co-luminescence
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