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Title: Experimental and calculated radionuclide production by photonuclear reactions using bremsstrahlung photons produced by 150 MeV electrons

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OSTI ID:10122724
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  1. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  2. Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)

The authors have developed an experimental apparatus to study radionuclide production by photonuclear reactions. A nearly neutron free bremsstrahlung beam was created by incident electron interactions with a tantalum radiator. They studied photonuclear reactions in different samples, including the elements Be, Na, Si, Cl, and Ge. Decay gamma rays from radionuclides having half lives > 2 min were analysed. Using the PICA code, the authors calculated the yield of radionuclides for silicon. They have observed and assigned a new gamma ray transition, of E(y) = 1153 keV, to the decay of 6.6 min 29-Al.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-84OR21400
OSTI ID:
10122724
Report Number(s):
CONF-940507-44; ON: DE95007363; TRN: 95:002598
Resource Relation:
Conference: International conference on nuclear data for science and technology: nuclear data for the twenty-first century,Gatlinburg, TN (United States),9-13 May 1994; Other Information: PBD: [1995]
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English