Investigation of Production Reaction Cross Section for ^{137}Cs Used in Radiotherapy

• Authors: N. Karpuz , M. Boz , B. Mavi , F. Oner , İ. Akkurt
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

During the production of the radiation source that used in radiotherapy may occur nuclear reactions are very important in terms of human health. ^{137}Cs is used in radiotherapy that consists of fission the ^{235}U core. Because of physical half-live of ^{137}Cs is 30 years, it is advantage for the radioactive half-lives. In this study, radionuclide production reaction cross section for ^{235}U (n,f)^{137}Cs is calculated with TALYS 1.6 nuclear simulation code that based on Monte Carlo.

Keywords

EN

82.20.Pm; 52.59.-f

Discipline

• 82.20.Pm: Rate constants, reaction cross sections, and activation energies
• 52.59.-f: Intense particle beams and radiation sources(see also 29.25.-t Particle sources and targets, and 29.27.-a Beams in particle accelerators, in instrumentation for elementary-particle and nuclear physics)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 128
• Issue: 2B
• Pages: B-363-B-364

Dates

published

2015-8

Contributors

author

N. Karpuz

• Süleyman Demirel University, Physics Department, Isparta, Turkey

author

M. Boz

• Amasya University, Physics Department, Amasya, Turkey

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B. Mavi

• Amasya University, Physics Department, Amasya, Turkey

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F. Oner

• Amasya University, Physics Department, Amasya, Turkey

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İ. Akkurt

• Süleyman Demirel University, Physics Department, Isparta, Turkey

References

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• [3] EXFOR/CSISRS, Experimental Nuclear Reaction Data File, Brookhaven National Laboratory, National Nuclear Data Center, 2009
• [4] An Thien Vu, M.Sc Thesis, MIT 2011
• [5] A.D. Carlson, O.A. Wasson, P.W. Lisowski, J.L. Ullmann, N.W. Hill, Conf. on Nucl. Data for Sci. and Technol., Juelich 1991, p. 518

Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.128.B-363