Abstract
In the frame of a systematic study of activation cross sections of deuteron induced reactions, experimental cross section data were measured on Mn (monoisotopic 55Mn) up to 50 MeV for the formation of 56,54,52Mn, 48V and 51Cr by using stacked-foil activation method and high resolution gamma spectrometry. The experimental data are compared with the earlier published data and with the results predicted by the ALICE-IPPE-D and EMPIRE-II-D theoretical codes, and with the data taken from the on-line TENDL-2017 library.
Highlights
Activation cross sections of residual nuclides with deuteron are basic data for applications around modern accelerators e.g. in radiation dose estimations for accelerator and target technology, in medical isotope production, in radio-analytical studies for biomedical research and wear control by thin layer activation technique
The experimental activation cross sections data are important for further development of the theoretical codes for deuteron induced nuclear reactions and for optimization of production routes of some medically relevant radionuclides 52gMn [1] and 51Cr [2]
We could not identify the gamma-lines of 52Fe in our spectra (Eγ = 168.688 keV, Iγ = 99.2%), but the presented cross section values are cumulative and include the small contribution by isomeric decay (1.75%) of the short-lived metastable state 52mMn
Summary
Activation cross sections of residual nuclides with deuteron are basic data for applications around modern accelerators e.g. in radiation dose estimations for accelerator and target technology, in medical isotope production, in radio-analytical studies for biomedical research and wear control by thin layer activation technique. The status of experimental database for deuteron induced reactions—opposite to protons- is very poor (especially above 15 MeV), no systematical study has been performed earlier and in the published data (except for a few well measured monitor and medically important reactions) show large discrepancies.
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