Excitation functions of alpha-particle induced nuclear reactions on nat Sn
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Mahesh Choudhary
Abstract
Excitation functions of alpha-particle induced nuclear reactions on nat Sn have been presented in the 11–40 MeV energy range. In the present study, the stacked-foil activation technique followed by offline gamma-ray spectrometry was used to measure the production of 119Te, 121Te, 122Sb and 126Sb from alpha-particle induced reactions on nat Sn. The TALYS nuclear code was used to calculate the theoretical predictions of the excitation functions of nat Sn(α,x) nuclear reactions. The measured data of the above-mentioned nuclear reactions were compared with the theoretical predictions and the experimental results available from EXFOR. In this study, covariance analysis was performed to calculate the uncertainty propagation in the measured cross sections.
Acknowledgments
We acknowledge the kind support provided by Prof. Chandana Bhattacharya, Head, Experimental Nuclear Physics Division, VECC, Kolkata and Prof. A. K. Tyagi, Director, Chemistry Group, BARC, Mumbai towards the successful execution of the experiment. We would also like to express our gratitude to VECC's Cyclotron (K-130) staff for providing us with high quality beams throughout the experiment.
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Research ethics: Not applicable.
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Author contributions: 1. The first author, Mahesh choudhary, was involved in writing the manuscript, conducting the experiments, and analyzing the data. 2. The corresponding author, Ajay Kumar played an important role in shaping the manuscript and supervised the entire process. Ajay Kumar also supervised the experiment and ensured its successful execution. 3. We also want to thank the co-authors – Aman Sharma, Namrata Singh, Aman Gandhi, Mahima Upadhyay, Rebecca Pachuau, Sandipan Dasgupta, Jagannath Datta – for their teamwork and contribution towards the experiment.
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Competing interests: The authors states no conflict of interest.
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Research funding: 1. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India – File No 09/013(882)/2019-EMR-1. 2. IUAC-UGC, Government of India (Sanction No. IUAC/XIII.7/UFR-71353). 3. Institutions of Eminence (IoE) BHU [Grant No. 6031].
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Data availability: The raw data can be obtained on request from the corresponding author.
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