Excitation functions of alpha-particle induced nuclear reactions on
nat
Sn
Author:
Choudhary Mahesh1, Singh Namrata1, Sharma Aman1, Gandhi Aman1, Upadhyay Mahima1, Pachuau Rebecca1, Dasgupta Sandipan2, Datta Jagannath2, Kumar Ajay1
Affiliation:
1. Department of Physics , Banaras Hindu University , Varanasi 221005 , India 2. Analytical Chemistry Division , Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre , Kolkata 700064 , India
Abstract
Abstract
Excitation functions of alpha-particle induced nuclear reactions on
nat
Sn have been presented in the 11–40 MeV energy range. In the present study, the stacked-foil activation technique followed by offline gamma-ray spectrometry was used to measure the production of 119Te, 121Te, 122Sb and 126Sb from alpha-particle induced reactions on
nat
Sn. The TALYS nuclear code was used to calculate the theoretical predictions of the excitation functions of
nat
Sn(α,x) nuclear reactions. The measured data of the above-mentioned nuclear reactions were compared with the theoretical predictions and the experimental results available from EXFOR. In this study, covariance analysis was performed to calculate the uncertainty propagation in the measured cross sections.
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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