Laser-driven radioisotopes production at SCAPA for medical and industrial application

G Battaglia; E Brunetti; M M R Chishti; G Lorusso; D O'Donnell; M Scheck; S M Wiggins; D A Jaroszynski

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1643/1/012200

Laser-driven radioisotopes production at SCAPA for medical and industrial application

G Battaglia, E Brunetti, M M R Chishti, G Lorusso, D O'Donnell, M Scheck, S M Wiggins, D A Jaroszynski

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Abstract

Isotopes for nuclear medicine are scarce and expensive. Researchers worldwide are exploring new production methods to avoid the dependence on nuclear reactors as sources to satisfy future isotope demands. Photo-nuclear reactions have hitherto been used as a tool for studying the nuclear structure. Laser wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) are very compact accelerators capable of producing high energy electron beams. In this paper we investigate the possibility of using LWFAs to produce 225Ac via photo-spallation reactions.

Original language	English
Article number	012200
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume	1643
Early online date	2 Aug 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1643/1/012200
Publication status	Published - 23 Dec 2020

Keywords

isotopes
nuclear medicine
production
photo-nuclear reactions
laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA)
photo-spallation reactions

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