Eur. Phys. J. A (2019) 55: 88
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2019-12761-y

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Production of a ¹⁵C radioactive ion beam based on ¹⁸O(n,)

¹ CSC-IT Center for Science Ltd., Keilaranta 14, P.O.Box 405, 02101, Espoo, Finland
² 189 Allée Jules Verne, 075000, Guilherand-Granges, France
³ GANIL, Bld Henri Becquerel, B.P. 55027, 14076, Caen Cedex 05, France
⁴ Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, P.O.Box 55, 00014, Helsinki, Finland
⁵ iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Science, P.O.Box 722, 7129, Somerset West, Western Cape, South Africa
⁶ Power Division, Fortum Corporation, Keilaniementie 1, P.O.Box 100, 02101, Espoo, Finland
⁷ Khlopin Radium Institute, 2 Murinsky Av. 28, Saint Petersburg, Russia
⁸ Department of Physics, University of Jyvaskyla, P.O.Box 35, 40351, Jyvaskyla, Finland

^* e-mail: wladyslaw.h.trzaska@jyu.fi

Received: 22 January 2019
Accepted: 23 April 2019
Published online: 7 June 2019

Abstract

In the context of the SPIRAL2 radioactive beam facility the production rate of the neutron-rich ¹⁵C nucleus by ¹⁸O(n,) has been investigated. In a water target of 20 cm³, enriched in ¹⁸O and placed behind the neutron converter, a rate of a few 10¹⁰ nuclei per second can be reached with 1mA of 40MeV deuterons. A ¹⁸O(n,) cross-section based on the activation method is proposed. It is intermediate between the highest and lowest evaluations available to date.