On the photon self-absorption correction for thin-target-yields vs. thick-target-yields in radionuclide production

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 240-242

  Alfassi, Zeev B ^a   Persico, Elisa ^b   Groppi, Flavia ^b   Bonardi, Mauro L ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b INFN LASA   (Italy)

Author keywords

HpGe spectrometry; Radionuclide production; Self absorption; Thick target; Thin foils

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; EXPERIMENTS; GAMMA RAYS; ION BEAMS; RADIOISOTOPES; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

HPGE SPECTROMETRY; RADIONUCLIDE PRODUCTION; SELF-ABSORPTION; THICK TARGET; THIN FOILS;

TARGETS;

RHENIUM 186;

ARTICLE; CYCLOTRON; GAMMA IRRADIATION; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICK TARGET YIELD; THIN TARGET YIELD;

CALIBRATION; CYCLOTRONS; GAMMA RAYS; RADIOISOTOPES; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA;

EID: 58049166711     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2008.10.004     Document Type: Article

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