Abstract
The production of carrier-free 59Fe by the 59Co( n, p) 59Fe reaction was investigated. Fast neutrons were produced by bombarding a thick beryllium target with deuterons of about 52 MeV. For the separation of the carrier-free 59Fe from the cobalt matrix, the thenolytrifluoracetone solvent extraction method was used. About 0·2 μCi of 59Fe is produced within 1 hr of the irradiation of 1 g cobalt at 1 μA deuteron current. With the help of an empirical method, an excitation function for the 59Co( n, p) 59Fe reaction was obtained. This method is based on the dependence of certain characteristic data of the excitation function for a given type of reaction, such as the height and position of maxima and the FWHM, on the atomic number of the target. The agreement between the activities, calculated using this excitation function, and the experimental results is good.
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