Evaluation of Excitation Functions of Reactions Used in Production of Some Medical Radioisotopes - International Journal of Medical Physics, Clinical Engineering and Radiation Oncology

IJMPCERO > Vol.6 No.3, August 2017

Evaluation of Excitation Functions of Reactions Used in Production of Some Medical Radioisotopes ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ijmpcero.2017.63026 973 Downloads 2,174 Views Citations

Author(s)

Idris Ahmad^*, Yahya Ibrahim Yola, Fatima Salman Koki

Affiliation(s)

Department of Physics, Bayero University Kano, Kano, Nigeria.

ABSTRACT

In this work, reaction cross-sections were calculated and Excitation Functions were evaluated for productions of ²⁰⁸Bi, ^212,211,210At, ^211,210Po isotopes using EXIFON code in the energy range from 0 MeV to 30 MeV. The code is based on an analytical model for statistical multistep direct and multistep compound reactions (SMD/SMC model). This work also investigates the shell structure effect on the reaction cross-section, the results obtained show that the cross-sections of (a, na) reaction for both with shell correction and without shell correction are zeros at energies range considered, this shows that the energy of the incident particle is below the threshold of this reaction due to the present of coulomb repulsive force between the projectile and target nucleus.

KEYWORDS

Nuclear Reaction, Cross-Section, Excitation Function, Radioisotope, Nuclear Model

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Ahmad, I. , Yola, Y. and Koki, F. (2017) Evaluation of Excitation Functions of Reactions Used in Production of Some Medical Radioisotopes. International Journal of Medical Physics, Clinical Engineering and Radiation Oncology, 6, 290-303. doi: 10.4236/ijmpcero.2017.63026.

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