Comparative study for α-particles induced nuclear reactions on Mo targets: Production routes of ⁹⁷Ru and ⁹⁵Ru

Some radioisotopes have γ-energies and half-lives appropriate for use in medical applications. It is important to study the possible ways to produce some selected isotopes of Ru, like ⁹⁷Ru and ⁹⁵Ru, through nuclear reactions of α-particle with Mo targets, like ⁹⁴Mo(α,n), ⁹⁵Mo(α,2n), ⁹⁶Mo(α,3n), ⁹⁷Mo(α,4n),⁹⁸Mo(α,5n) and ^natMo(α,xn) for ⁹⁷Ru, as well as ⁹²Mo(α,n) and ⁹⁴Mo(α,3n) for ⁹⁵Ru. In this work, a comparative study of different production routes was carried out and weighted averages excitation functions were given. TALYS 2.0 and EMPIRE-3.2.3 codes were used to obtain the theoretical estimations for these excitation functions, for comparison. The TTY was also calculated for these reactions with respect to energy and target thickness range.