Production of the mercury-197 through proton induced reaction on gold

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1694-1698

  Elmaghraby, E K ^a   Hassan, K F ^a   Omara, H ^a   Saleh, Z A ^a  

^a NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Excitation function; Nuclear model calculations; Stacked foil technique

Indexed keywords

CROSS SECTION; ENERGY RANGES; EXCITATION FUNCTION; HIGH-PURITY GOLD; ISOMERIC CROSS-SECTION RATIO; NUCLEAR MODEL CALCULATION; PROTON ENERGY; PROTON EXCHANGE REACTION; PROTON INDUCED REACTION; STACKED-FOIL TECHNIQUES;

MERCURY (METAL); PROTONS;

GOLD;

GOLD; MERCURY; MERCURY 197; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CYCLOTRON; ELECTRON CAPTURE DETECTION; EXCITATION; FOIL; GAMMA RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; PROTON TRANSPORT; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; SCINTILLATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GOLD; MERCURY RADIOISOTOPES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROTONS;

EID: 79952198288     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: 18729800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2010.04.009     Document Type: Article

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