Activation cross sections of the ~(64)Ni(d,2n) reaction for the production of the medical radionuclide ~(64)Cu

摘要

Deuteron particle induced reactions for generation of ~(64)Cu used in diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine and its possible short lived contaminant ~(61)Cu were investigated with the stacked foil activation technique on natural nickel targets up to E_d = 20.5 MeV. Excitation functions for the reactions ~(64)Ni(d,2n)~(64)Cu and ~(nat)Ni(d,x)~(61)Cu are obtained by gamma spectroscopy and are compared with earlier literature values. Thick target yields have been deduced from the experimental cross sections and the predictive capability of the ALICE-IPPE, EMPIRE II and GNASH model codes is tested.