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Measurement of the flux-weighted cross-sections for the natYb(γ,xn)175,169,167Yb reactions in the Bremsstrahlung end-point energies of 12–16 MeV and 60–70 MeV

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The flux-weighted cross-sections of the natYb(γ, xn)175,169,167Yb reactions were measured at the bremsstrahlung end-point energies of 12, 14, 16, 60, 65, and 70 MeV by the activation and off-line γ-ray spectrometric technique using the 20 MeV electron linac (ELBE) at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Dresden, Germany, and 100 MeV electron linac at the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL), Korea. The natYb(γ, xn)175,169,167Yb reaction cross-sections as a function of photon energy were also calculated theoretically using the TALYS 1.9 code. The flux-weighted average values at different end-point energies were obtained from the literature as well as from the theoretical values reported in the TALYS library based on mono-energetic photons. They were compared with the flux-weighted values based on the present experimental data and were found to be in general agreement. It was also found that the experimental and theoretical cross-section data increased from the threshold values to a certain energy, where other reaction channels opened, which highlights the role of excitation energy. After a certain value, the individual reaction cross-sections decrease with an increase in bremsstrahlung energy owing to the opening of other reaction channels, which indicates the partitioning of energy in different reaction channels.

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The manuscript has associated data in a data repository [Authors’ comment: All data used in this paper are deposited in the EXFOR data library (http://www-nds.iaea.org/exfor) and TENDEL-2019 data library (http://tendl.web.psi.ch/tendl_2019/tendl2019.html) and the data produced during this study will be deposited in the EXFOR data library].

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank the staff of electron linac (ELBE) at HZDR, Dresden, Germany and PAL, Pohang, Korea for providing the electron beam to conduct the experiments. This research was partly supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) through grants provided by the Ministry of Science, and ICT (NRF-2017R1D1A1B03030484, NRF-2018R1A6A1A06024970, and NRF-2019H1D3A2A01102637).

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  1. Radiochemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 400085, India

    H. Naik

  2. Center for High Energy Physics, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 41566, Korea

    H. Naik, G. N. Kim & T. H. Nguyen

  3. Institute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Dressden, Germany

    R. Schwengner, R. Massarczyk, R. John, A. Junghans & A. Wagner

  4. Physics Department, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, 76019, USA

    Wooyoung Jang

  5. Division of Advanced Nuclear Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, 37673, Korea

    S. G. Shin, Y. Kye & M. H. Cho

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Naik, H., Kim, G.N., Schwengner, R. et al. Measurement of the flux-weighted cross-sections for the natYb(γ,xn)175,169,167Yb reactions in the Bremsstrahlung end-point energies of 12–16 MeV and 60–70 MeV. Eur. Phys. J. A 59, 249 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-023-01137-x

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