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Preparation of isotopic antimony targets

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Thin self-supporting 123Sb targets were needed for studies using GAMMASPHERE investigating transverse wobbling in the highly-deformed triaxial nucleus 135Pr. The experiment was carried out using the 123Sb(16O,4n)135Pr reaction with the 80 MeV 16O beam provided by the ATLAS accelerator facility. In particle–particle coincidence measurements 121Sb targets were irradiated with a 332 MeV 28Si beam from ATLAS to measure evaporation residues and fission. The antimony targets were prepared self-supporting by the method of physical vapor deposition onto polished glass substrates or on various backing materials. Target thicknesses on the order of 500–1,000 μg/cm2 were obtained and used for the experiments. Details of the target production and performance in beam will be discussed.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Dr. Robert Janssens, the Physics Division Director, for his continuing encouragement and support of these efforts. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.

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  1. Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA

    John P. Greene, Alanna Pawlak & Shaofei Zhu

  2. Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, 225 Nieuwland Science Hall, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA

    Umesh Garg

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This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.

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Greene, J.P., Pawlak, A., Zhu, S. et al. Preparation of isotopic antimony targets. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 299, 1125–1128 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-013-2675-8

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