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Production of 47Sc with natural vanadium targets: results of the PASTA project

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The goal of PASTA project (acronym for production with accelerator of 47Sc for theranostic applications) is the determination of excitation functions associated to several nuclear reactions, aimed at yielding the theranostic radionuclide 47Sc. This work reports the main results obtained by irradiating natural vanadium targets with proton beams up to 70 MeV. Particular care is also given to the co-production of 46Sc, the only isotopic contaminant with half-life longer than 47Sc. Experimental results are compared with theoretical studies by means of known nuclear reaction software tools that are publicly available.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thanks Dr. R. Capote, Dr. M. W. Herman, and Dr. Carlos Rossi Alvarez for private communications and the enlightening scientific discussion. This work has been partially supported by EU Horizon 2020 Project RIA-ENSAR2 (654 02) and by a Grant from the French National Agency for Research called “Investissements d’Avenir”, Equipex Arronax-Plus noANR-11-EQPX-0004, Labex IRON noANR-11-LABX-18-01 and noANR-16-IDEX-0007.

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Funding was provided by Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare CSN5 with the Grant PASTA (Bando Giovani Ricercatori No. 18203).

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  1. Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (LNL), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Viale dell’Università 2, 35020, Legnaro, PD, Italy

    Gaia Pupillo, Liliana Mou, Sara Cisternino, Petra Martini, Micòl Pasquali, Hanna Skliarova & Juan Esposito

  2. Dip.to di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche and Sezione INFN di Ferrara, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Via G. Saragat 1, 44122, Ferrara, FE, Italy

    Alessandra Boschi & Adriano Duatti

  3. Dip.to di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Via A. Bassi, 6, 27100, Pavia, PV, Italy

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  4. Sezione INFN di Pavia, Via A. Bassi 6, 27100, Pavia, PV, Italy

    Simone Calzaferri & Andrea Fontana

  5. Sezione INFN di Padova, Via F. Marzolo 8, 35131, Padua, PD, Italy

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  6. Dip.to di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Viale Berti Pichat 6/2, 40127, Bologna, BO, Italy

    Lucia De Dominicis

  7. Subatech, CNRS/IN2P3, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CS 20722, 44307, Nantes Cedex, France

    Férid Haddad

  8. GIP ARRONAX, Rue Arronax 1, 44800, Saint-Herblain, France

    Férid Haddad

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Pupillo, G., Mou, L., Boschi, A. et al. Production of 47Sc with natural vanadium targets: results of the PASTA project. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 322, 1711–1718 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-019-06844-8

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