Abstract
As part of a broader campaign to understand gamma-induced charged particle emission with multiple materials, the cross sections of the (γ, p), and (γ, α) reactions on a natural zinc target were measured. These cross sections were measured experimentally using a kinematically-complete, event-by-event methodology, using monoenergetic gamma ray beams from the High Intensity Gamma Source (HIγS) facility, ranging from 10 to 19 MeV, to bombard a natural metallic zinc target in vacuum. The measured cross sections are compared with theoretical predictions using the statistical model approach, which is important for the use of such models in real-world applications such as the production of the 67Cu theranostic via the 68Zn(γ, p) reaction.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 112422 |
| Journal | Applied Radiation and Isotopes |
| Volume | 229 |
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| State | Published - Mar 2026 |
Funding
The authors wish to thank the staff of the Center for Accelerator Target Science (CATS) at Argonne National Laboratory, C. Müller-Gatermann and C. Mohs, for providing the Zn target, and the staff of the HIγS facility, in particular S. Finch, S. Mikhailov, and M. Emamian. Research sponsored by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U. S. Department of Energy. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. DOE, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 (ORNL). C. Matei supported by a grant from the Romanian Ministry of Research, Innovation, and Digitalization under Contract No. PN 23 21 01 06 and Project no. PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-1014. E. Torres acknowledges the support of the U.S. DOE, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under contract DE-SC0022027 (Nuclear Physics in East Tennessee). B. Sudarsan, H.I. Garland, and M.M. Grinder acknowledge the support of National Science Foundation, United States award number NSF-PHY 2110985 (Rutgers University). The authors wish to thank the staff of the Center for Accelerator Target Science (CATS) at Argonne National Laboratory, C. Müller-Gatermann and C. Mohs, for providing the Zn target, and the staff of the HIS facility, in particular S. Finch, S. Mikhailov, and M. Emamian. Research sponsored by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U. S. Department of Energy. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. DOE, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 (ORNL). C. Matei supported by a grant from the Romanian Ministry of Research, Innovation, and Digitalization under Contract No. PN 23 21 01 06 and Project no. PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-1014. E. Torres acknowledges the support of the U.S. DOE, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under contract DE-SC0022027 (Nuclear Physics in East Tennessee). B. Sudarsan, H.I. Garland, and M.M. Grinder acknowledge the support of National Science Foundation, United States award number NSF-PHY 2110985 (Rutgers University).
Keywords
- Gamma-induced reactions