1. Nuclear reaction cross sections for proton therapy applications
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Ji-Hong Hong, Shiaw-Pyng Wey, Mahdi Sadeghi, Tsi-Chian Chao, Saber Sarbazvatan, Chung-Chi Lee, Chuan-Jong Tung, and Milad Enferadi
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Nuclear reaction ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,Radiochemistry ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Tungsten ,010403 inorganic & nuclear chemistry ,01 natural sciences ,Pollution ,Copper ,0104 chemical sciences ,Analytical Chemistry ,Nickel ,Nuclear Energy and Engineering ,chemistry ,Deuterium ,0103 physical sciences ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Neutron ,010306 general physics ,Tin ,Carbon ,Spectroscopy - Abstract
Nuclear reactions of high-energy protons with treatment equipment, air, and patient tissue during proton therapy generate residual radioactivity and secondary particles including protons, deuterons, alphas, and neutrons. The most up-to-date versions of INCL++ (v5.2.9), TALYS (v1.8), EMPIRE (v3.2.2 Malta), and ALICE/ASH were used in this study to calculate the excitation functions of proton-induced reactions with carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, aluminum, calcium, iron, nickel, copper, zinc, tin, tungsten, and lead nuclei. The cross sections of different nuclear reaction mechanisms, gamma particles, and residual radionuclides were calculated. The obtained results were compared with available experimental data and the ENDF/B-VII.1.
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- 2017
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