Activation cross section for the (n, 2n) and (n,p) reactions on ¹⁰³Rh, ⁴⁸Ti and ⁵²Cr from reaction threshold up to 25 MeV energy region

Activation and off-line gamma-ray spectrometric methods were used to measure the ground and isomeric state (n, 2n) reaction cross section for Rh-103 at two different neutron energies. The standard Al-27 (n, alpha)Na-24 reference reaction was used to normalise neutron flux. The proton beam from the 14UD BARC-TIFR Pelletron facility in Mumbai, India, was utilised to create high-energy quasi-monoenergetic neutrons via the Li-7 (p, n) reaction. Statistical model calculations including the level density, pre-equilibrium and optical potential model were performed using the TALYS (ver. 1.95) and EMPIRE (ver. 3.2.3) reaction codes. In addition, because of considerable discrepancies in measured data, the literature (n, p) reaction cross section of Cr-52 and Ti-48 targets were examined theoretically in the present work. The measured cross sections are discussed and compared with the latest evaluated data of the FENDL-3.2b, CENDL-3.2, TENDL-2019, JENDL-5.0, and ENDF/B-VIII.0 libraries, and experimental data based on the EXFOR compilation. The theoretical investigation of the (n, 2n) reaction cross section was performed for the ground and isomeric state for the first time from reaction threshold to 25 MeV energies. The experimental data corresponding to the ground, isomeric state and isomeric ratio were reproduced consistently by the theoretical calculations. The present experimental results are good with certain literature data and theoretical values.