Excitation functions of the deuteron-induced nuclear reaction on gold
Jaroslav Cervenak, Ondrej Lebeda
Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS
Poster
No conflict of interests
The excitation functions of the deuteron-induced nuclear reactions on the naturally monoisotopic gold were carefully re-measured using the stacked-foil technique up to 20 MeV. The isotopic cross-sections were obtained for the formation of Hg-197m, Hg-197g, Au-196m2, Au-196m1+g, Au-198-m and Au-198m+g. The results were compared with previous measurements and prediction of the nuclear reaction model code TALYS adopted from the TENDL-2017 library. We often observed significant discrepancy between our data and the predicted values, while the agreement with previous measurements varied from good consistency up to large difference. Obviously, the (d,2n) reaction enhances formation of the Hg-197m compared with the (p,n) reaction.