Measurement of the 160Gd(n, γ) cross section at n_TOF and its medical implications

M. Mastromarco; A. Manna; F. García-Infantes; S. Amaducci; A. Mengoni; C. Massimi; G. Tagliente; S. Cristallo; O. Aberle; V. Alcayne; S. Altieri; J. Andrzejewski; V. Babiano-Suarez; M. Bacak; J. Balibrea; C. Beltrami; S. Bennett; A. P. Bernardes; E. Berthoumieux; R. Beyer; M. Boromiza; D. Bosnar; M. Caamaño; F. Calviño; M. Calviani; D. Cano-Ott; A. Casanovas; F. Cerutti; G. Cescutti; E. Chiaveri; P. Colombetti; N. Colonna; P. Console Camprini; G. Cortés; M. A. Cortés-Giraldo; L. Cosentino; S. Dellmann; M. Di Castro; S. Di Maria; M. Diakaki; M. Dietz; C. Domingo-Pardo; R. Dressler; E. Dupont; I. Durán; Z. Eleme; S. Fargier; B. Fernández; B. Fernández-Domínguez; P. Finocchiaro; S. Fiore; V. Furman; A. Gawlik-Ramięga; G. Gervino; S. Gilardoni; E. González-Romero; C. Guerrero; F. Gunsing; C. Gustavino; J. Heyse; W. Hillman; D. G. Jenkins; E. Jericha; A. Junghans; Y. Kadi; K. Kaperoni; G. Kaur; A. Kimura; I. Knapová; M. Kokkoris; Y. Kopatch; M. Krtička; N. Kyritsis; I. Ladarescu; C. Lederer-Woods; J. Lerendegui-Marco; G. Lerner; T. Martínez; A. Masi; P. Mastinu; E. A. Maugeri; A. Mazzone; E. Mendoza; V. Michalopoulou; P. M. Milazzo; R. Mucciola; F. Murtas; E. Musacchio-Gonzalez; A. Musumarra; A. Negret; A. Pérez de Rada; P. Pérez-Maroto; N. Patronis; J. A. Pavón-Rodríguez; M. G. Pellegriti; J. Perkowski; C. Petrone; E. Pirovano; J. Plaza; S. Pomp; I. Porras; J. Praena; J. M. Quesada; R. Reifarth; D. Rochman; Y. Romanets; C. Rubbia; A. Sánchez; M. Sabaté-Gilarte; P. Schillebeeckx; D. Schumann; A. Sekhar; A. G. Smith; N. V. Sosnin; M. E. Stamati; A. Sturniolo; A. Tarifeño-Saldivia; D. Taírro; P. Torres-Sánchez; E. Vagena; S. Valenta; V. Variale; P. Vaz; G. Vecchio; D. Vescovi; V. Vlachoudis; R. Vlastou; A. Wallner; P. J. Woods; T. Wright; R. Zarrella; P. Zugec

doi:10.1051/epjconf/202328409002

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EPJ Web of Conf., 284 (2023) 09002

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Issue		EPJ Web of Conf. Volume 284, 2023 15^th International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (ND2022)


Article Number		09002
Number of page(s)		5
Section		Medical Isotope Properties and Production
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202328409002
Published online		26 May 2023

EPJ Web of Conferences 284, 09002 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202328409002

Measurement of the ¹⁶⁰Gd(n, γ) cross section at n_TOF and its medical implications

M. Mastromarco¹^,2, A. Manna³^,4, F. García-Infantes⁵, S. Amaducci⁶, A. Mengoni⁷^,3, C. Massimi³^,4, G. Tagliente¹, S. Cristallo⁸^,9, O. Aberle¹⁰, V. Alcayne¹¹, S. Altieri¹²^,13, J. Andrzejewski¹⁴, V. Babiano-Suarez¹⁵, M. Bacak¹⁰, J. Balibrea¹⁵, C. Beltrami¹², S. Bennett¹⁶, A. P. Bernardes¹⁰, E. Berthoumieux¹⁷, R. Beyer¹⁸, M. Boromiza¹⁹, D. Bosnar²⁰, M. Caamaño²¹, F. Calviño²², M. Calviani¹⁰, D. Cano-Ott¹¹, A. Casanovas²², F. Cerutti¹⁰, G. Cescutti²³^,24, E. Chiaveri¹⁰^,16, P. Colombetti²⁵^,26, N. Colonna¹, P. Console Camprini³^,7, G. Cortés²², M. A. Cortés-Giraldo²⁷, L. Cosentino⁶, S. Dellmann²⁸, M. Di Castro¹⁰, S. Di Maria²⁹, M. Diakaki³⁰, M. Dietz³¹, C. Domingo-Pardo¹⁵, R. Dressler³², E. Dupont¹⁷, I. Durán²¹, Z. Eleme³³, S. Fargier¹⁰, B. Fernández²⁷, B. Fernández-Domínguez²¹, P. Finocchiaro⁶, S. Fiore⁷^,34, V. Furman³⁵, A. Gawlik-Ramięga¹⁴, G. Gervino²⁵^,26, S. Gilardoni¹⁰, E. González-Romero¹¹, C. Guerrero²⁷, F. Gunsing¹⁷, C. Gustavino³⁴, J. Heyse³⁶, W. Hillman¹⁶, D. G. Jenkins³⁷, E. Jericha³⁸, A. Junghans¹⁸, Y. Kadi¹⁰, K. Kaperoni³⁰, G. Kaur¹⁷, A. Kimura³⁹, I. Knapová⁴⁰, M. Kokkoris³⁰, Y. Kopatch³⁵, M. Krtička⁴⁰, N. Kyritsis³⁰, I. Ladarescu¹⁵, C. Lederer-Woods⁴¹, J. Lerendegui-Marco¹⁵, G. Lerner¹⁰, T. Martínez¹¹, A. Masi¹⁰, P. Mastinu⁴², E. A. Maugeri³², A. Mazzone¹^,43, E. Mendoza¹¹, V. Michalopoulou³⁰, P. M. Milazzo²³, R. Mucciola⁸^,44, F. Murtas⁴⁵, E. Musacchio-Gonzalez⁴², A. Musumarra⁴⁶^,47, A. Negret¹⁹, A. Pérez de Rada¹¹, P. Pérez-Maroto²⁷, N. Patronis³³, J. A. Pavón-Rodríguez²⁷, M. G. Pellegriti⁴⁶, J. Perkowski¹⁴, C. Petrone¹⁹, E. Pirovano³¹, J. Plaza¹¹, S. Pomp⁴⁸, I. Porras⁵, J. Praena⁵, J. M. Quesada²⁷, R. Reifarth²⁸, D. Rochman³², Y. Romanets²⁹, C. Rubbia¹⁰, A. Sánchez¹¹, M. Sabaté-Gilarte¹⁰, P. Schillebeeckx³⁶, D. Schumann³², A. Sekhar¹⁶, A. G. Smith¹⁶, N. V. Sosnin⁴¹, M. E. Stamati³³, A. Sturniolo²⁵, A. Tarifeño-Saldivia¹⁵, D. Taírro⁴⁸, P. Torres-Sánchez⁵, E. Vagena³³, S. Valenta⁴⁰, V. Variale¹, P. Vaz²⁹, G. Vecchio⁶, D. Vescovi²⁸, V. Vlachoudis¹⁰, R. Vlastou³⁰, A. Wallner¹⁸, P. J. Woods⁴¹, T. Wright¹⁶, R. Zarrella³^,4, P. Zugec²⁰ and the n_TOF Collaboration

¹ Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Italy
² Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
³ Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
⁴ Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Italy
⁵ University of Granada, Spain
⁶ INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
⁷ Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie (ENEA), Italy
⁸ Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia, Italy
⁹ Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica - Osservatorio Astronomico di Teramo, Italy
¹⁰ European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
¹¹ Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Spain
¹² Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pavia, Italy
¹³ Department of Physics, University of Pavia, Italy
¹⁴ University of Lodz, Poland
¹⁵ Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC - Universidad de Valencia, Spain
¹⁶ University of Manchester, United Kingdom
¹⁷ CEA Irfu, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
¹⁸ Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
¹⁹ Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Romania
²⁰ Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
²¹ University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
²² Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
²³ Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, Italy
²⁴ Department of Physics, University of Trieste, Italy
²⁵ Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino, Italy
²⁶ Department of Physics, University of Torino, Italy
²⁷ Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
²⁸ Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
²⁹ Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
³⁰ National Technical University of Athens, Greece
³¹ Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Bundesallee 100, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
³² Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland
³³ University of Ioannina, Greece
³⁴ Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma1, Roma, Italy
³⁵ Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
³⁶ European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Geel, Belgium
³⁷ University of York, United Kingdom
³⁸ TU Wien, Atominstitut, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Wien, Austria
³⁹ Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai-Mura, Japan
⁴⁰ Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
⁴¹ School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
⁴² INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Italy
⁴³ Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bari, Italy
⁴⁴ Dipartimento di Fisica e Geologia, Università di Perugia, Italy
⁴⁵ INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy
⁴⁶ Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Catania, Italy
⁴⁷ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Catania, Italy
⁴⁸ Uppsala University, Sweden

Published online: 26 May 2023

Abstract

Neutron-capture reactions on gadolinium isotopes play an important role in several fields of physics,in particular in nuclear Astrophysics for the understanding of the nucleosynthesis of heavy elements (beyond iron) in stars via the s- and r-processes [1] and in nuclear technology. Another important application of gadolinium is linked to the production of terbium, that offers a set of clinically interesting isotopes for theranostics, characterized by complementary physical decay characteristics. In particular, the low-energy β −emitter terbium-161 is very similar to lutetium-177 in terms of half-life (6.89 d), β − energy and chemical properties. Being a significant emitter of conversion/Auger electrons, greater therapeutic effect can therefore be expected in comparison to Lu-177 [2, 3]. For this reason, in the last decade, the study of the neutron capture reaction ¹⁶⁰Gd(n,γ)¹⁶¹ Gd and the subsequent β − decay in terbium-161 is getting particular attention. As the nuclear data on the Gd-160 neutron capture reaction are quite scarce and inconsistent, a new measurement of the capture cross section of Gd-160 at the CERN neutron Time-Of-Flight facilty was performed in order to provide high resolution, high-accuracy data on this important reaction, in the energy range from thermal to hundreds of keV. In this contribution, the preliminary results of the n_TOF measurement are presented.

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