Feasibility of 99Mo production by proton-induced fission of 232Th

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 278, Issue , 2012, Pages 20-25

  Abbas, Kamel ^a   Holzwarth, Uwe ^a   Simonelli, Federica ^a   Kozempel, Jan ^a   Cydzik, Izabela ^a   Bulgheroni, Antonio ^a   Cotogno, Giulio ^a   Apostolidis, Christos ^a   Bruchertseifer, Frank ^a   Morgenstern, Alfred ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

232Th; 99Mo; 99mTc; Cyclotron; Excitation function; Stacked foil technique

Indexed keywords

CO-PRODUCTION; EXCITATION FUNCTION; ION ACCELERATOR; MEDICAL ISOTOPES; PRODUCTION METHODS; PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES; PROLIFERATION CONCERN; PROTON ENERGY; PROTON-INDUCED FISSIONS; STACKED-FOIL TECHNIQUES; TARGET MATERIALS; THICK TARGET YIELD; URANIUM TARGET;

RADIOISOTOPES; URANIUM;

CYCLOTRONS;

EID: 84857674080     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2012.01.043     Document Type: Article

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