Activation cross-section measurement of deuteron induced reactions on cerium for biomedical applications and for development of reaction theory

Ferenc Tarkanyi, Sandor Takacs, Fenyvesy Ditroi, J. Csikai, Alex Hermanne, A.v. Ignatyuk

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    Abstract

    In the frame of a systematic study of deuteron induced nuclear reactions on lanthanides we have measured the excitation functions on natural cerium for production of (142,139,138m,137)pr, Ce-143,Ce-141,Ce-139,Ce-137m,Ce-137,Ce-135 and La-140 up to 50 MeV deuteron energy using the activation method with stacked-foil irradiation technique and high-resolution gamma-ray spectrometry. The cross-sections of the investigated reactions were calculated using the modified pre-compound model codes ALICE-IPPE-D and EMPIRE-II-D. A comparison was made also with the data retrieved from the TENDL-2012 library, based on the latest version of the TALYS code system. The measured cross-section data are important for further improvement of nuclear reaction models and for practical applications in nuclear medicine and other labeling and activation studies. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)22-32
    Number of pages11
    JournalNucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. Sect. B
    Volume316
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2013

    Keywords

    • INDUCED NUCLEAR-REACTIONS;
    • PROTON-INDUCED REACTIONS;
    • THERAPEUTIC RADIONUCLIDE YB-169;
    • EXCITATION-FUNCTIONS; PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS;
    • CODE SYSTEM; NO-CARRIER; RADIOISOTOPES; ERBIUM;
    • YTTERBIUM

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