On the production of 52gMn by deuteron irradiation on natural chromium and its radionuclidic purity

Francesca Bianchi; Claudio Marchi; Glara Fuad; Flavia Groppi; Férid Haddad; Luca Magagnin; Simone Manenti

doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2020.109329

On the production of ^52gMn by deuteron irradiation on natural chromium and its radionuclidic purity

Appl Radiat Isot. 2020 Dec:166:109329. doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2020.109329. Epub 2020 Aug 14.

Authors

Francesca Bianchi¹, Claudio Marchi², Glara Fuad³, Flavia Groppi¹, Férid Haddad⁴, Luca Magagnin², Simone Manenti⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, Università Degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 16, I-20133, Milano, Italy; LASA, Department of Physics, Università Degli Studi di Milano and INFN-Milano, Via F.lli Cervi 201, I-20090, Segrate (MI), Italy.
² Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering ''Giulio Natta'', Politecnico di Milano, Via Mancinelli 7, I-20131, Milano, Italy.
³ Department of Physics, Università Degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 16, I-20133, Milano, Italy; LASA, Department of Physics, Università Degli Studi di Milano and INFN-Milano, Via F.lli Cervi 201, I-20090, Segrate (MI), Italy; Physics Department, Salahaddin University, Kirkuk Road, IQ-44001, Erbil, Iraq.
⁴ SUBATECH, Institut Mines Telecom Atlantique, CNRS/IN2P3, Nantes, Université de Nantes, France; GIP Arronax, 1 Rue Aronnax, 44817, CEDEX Saint-Herblain, France.
⁵ Department of Physics, Università Degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 16, I-20133, Milano, Italy; LASA, Department of Physics, Università Degli Studi di Milano and INFN-Milano, Via F.lli Cervi 201, I-20090, Segrate (MI), Italy. Electronic address: simone.manenti@mi.infn.it.

PMID: 32916627
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2020.109329

Abstract

The positron emitter ^52gMn is used for the Positron Emission Tomography - PET imaging.In this work we investigate the nuclear reactions for production of ^52gMn and ⁵⁴Mn induced by deuteron beams on natural chromium targets at energies up to E_d = 28 MeV using the stacked-foils activation technique. We calculate the thick target yields for ^52gMn and for the radionuclidic impurity ⁵⁴Mn, and we compare the radionuclidic purity of ^52gMn with that achievable in proton activation of Cr. The cross-sections of the reactions ^natCr(d,pxn)⁵¹Cr and ^natCr(d,x)⁴⁸V are also presented.

Keywords: Chromium target; Cross-section; Deuteron particle irradiation; Manganese-52; Mn radioisotopes; Yield.