Experimental determination of deuteron-induced activation cross sections of yttrium

摘要

Recently, accelerator utilization has been expanding rapidly, especially in technologically advanced countries. Production of radionuclides, which are used in many fields, especially in medicine, is one of the major areas of accelerator application. For efficient and proper production of a radionuclide, accurate nuclear data are needed [1,2]. In recent years considerable efforts have been devoted to compilation and standardization of production data for both diagnostic and therapeutic radionuclides and the database is now fairly strong. Most of those data, however, relate to proton induced reactions. For other light charged particle induced reactions the database is still rather weak. This applies particularly to deuteron induced reactions.