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E K Elmaghraby1, K F Hassan, H Omara
1Experimental Nuclear Physics Department, Nuclear Research Center, Atomic Energy Authority, Cairo, Egypt. emaghraby@techemail.com
Abstract:
The excitation function of the proton exchange reactions on gold was investigated in the energy range from threshold up to 20MeV. We presented our experimental results upto 14MeV stacked-foil technique was used, the target was of high purity gold foils (99.99%.) Reactions cross-sections and excitation functions were studied. Both isomeric level cross sections of (197)Hg were measured and calculated theoretically using the DDHMS routine of the EMPIRE-II (v2.19) code. Isomeric cross-section ratios for the pair (197m,g)Hg were calculated and presented as a function of proton energy.
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