Production of zirconium-88 via proton irradiation of metallic yttrium and preparation of target for neutron transmission measurements at DICER

Abstract A process for the production of tens to hundreds of GBq amounts of zirconium-88 (88Zr) using proton beams on yttrium was developed. For this purpose, yttrium metal targets (≈20 g) were irradiated in a ~16 to 34 MeV proton beam at a beam current of 100–200 µA at the Los Alamos Isotope Produc...

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Main Authors: Artem V. Matyskin, Athanasios Stamatopoulos, Ellen M. O’Brien, Brad J. DiGiovine, Veronika Mocko, Michael E. Fassbender, C. Etienne Vermeulen, Paul E. Koehler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-01-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-27993-7