Activation cross sections for reactions induced by 14 MeV neutrons on natural tin and enriched112Sn targets with reference to 111in production via radioisotope generator112Sn(n, 2n)111Sn → 111in

Radiochimica Acta

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 311-326

  Běták, Emil ^a,b   Mikołajczak, Renata ^c   Staniszewska, Joanna ^c   Mikolajewski, Stefan ^c   Rurarz, Edward ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Slovakia)

^b SILESIAN UNIVERSITY IN OPAVA   (Czech Republic)

^c SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

ray spectroscopy; Activation cross sections; Ge detector; Neutron generator; Neutron induced reactions; Tin region

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144470116     PISSN: 00338230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/ract.93.6.311.65644     Document Type: Article

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