Cross sections and production yields of 117mSn and other radionuclides generated in natural and enriched antimony with protons up to 145 MeV
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Stanislav V. Ermolaev
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Boris L. Zhuikov
Abstract
Cross sections of a prospective medical radionuclide 117mSn along with 113Sn, 120m,122Sb, 111,114mIn and 118,119m,119g,121m,121g,123mTe generated in natural and enriched antimony targets by protons in a wide energy range up to 145 MeV were determined. A stacked-foil technique followed by gas chemical separation and γ-ray spectrometry were used. The obtained data were compared with experimental values reported in literature and with theoretical computations by ALICE, TALYS and Cascade-Evaporation-Fission codes. Production yields of 117mSn and the main impurity 113Sn were estimated for different irradiation modes.
Acknowledgements
The authors are greatly thankful to the accelerator staff of Institute for High Energy Physics (Protvino, Russia) for the assistance in preparation and implementation of irradiation runs. The work was performed using the equipment of the Shared Research Center ‘Accelerating Center for Neutron Research of Matter Structure and Nuclear Medicine of INR RAS’ supported by Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in the frame of Agreement providing subsidizing (No. 14.621.21.0014 from 28.08.2017), unique ID RFMEFI62117X0014. In addition, this work was carried out in continued collaboration with the MIRP program at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA (supported by the U.S. Department of Energy NNSA NA-24 GIPP Program (for work at INR and RIAR in Russia), and under BNL Contract # DE-AC02-98CH10886.
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- Frontmatter
- Cross sections and production yields of 117mSn and other radionuclides generated in natural and enriched antimony with protons up to 145 MeV
- Surface features on aged 238Pu-doped Eu-monazite
- Luminescence studies of uranyl-aliphatic dicarboxylic acid complexes in acetonitrile medium
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