Systematic study of cross section for α-induced reaction on natCd up to 70 MeV using TALYS (version 1.96) code

Abstract

Systematic study of statistical model calculations for production cross section of medically and technologically important radioisotopes like ${}^{108g}$In, ${}^{110m}$In, ${}^{111g}$In, ${}^{114m}$In, ${}^{115m}$In, ${}^{116m}$In, ${}^{117g}$In, ¹¹⁰Sn, ${}^{113g}$Sn, ${}^{117m}$Sn and ${}^{111m}$Cd nuclei were performed via $\alpha$-induced reaction on natural cadmium target using the TALYS code (version 1.96) for beam energies up to 70 MeV. The theoretically estimated results based on TALYS were also compared with the experimental data reported in literature by the different groups and with the latest evaluations of the TENDL-2023 libraries. The influence of various nuclear level density models, alpha optical model potentials and pre-equilibrium models on the production cross section of reaction channels opened up via alpha on ${}^{nat}$Cd were investigated. Most consistent results in comparison with the experimental data have been found out utilizing the mean weighted deviation analysis in addition to an eye estimation. Such systematic studies of theoretically measured cross sections are extremely important for understanding the theoretical models of nuclear reaction, validating the nuclear model codes and improving the evaluated nuclear data compilations required for fundamental nuclear applications.