Excitation Functions Of He-3-Particle-Induced Nuclear Reactions On Rh-103: Experimental And Theoretical Investigations

The excitation function for He-3-induced reactions on Rh-103, as another pathway for the production of medically used Pd-103, was studied by the stacked foil technique. Excitation functions of the Rh-103(He-3,x)Pd-103, Ag-103,Ag- 104,Ag- 104m,Ag- 105 and Rh-100,Rh- 101,Rh- 101m,Rh- 102,Rh- 102m reactions were determined up to 27 MeV by detecting the characteristic -rays obtained from the decay of residual nuclei. The experimental results were compared with the theoretical ones obtained from the EMPIRE-3.2 code and the TENDL nuclear data library. From the measured cross-section data, integral production yields were calculated.