Thick-target Yield of ${}^{65}$Cu($\alpha ,n{)}^{68}$Ga Near Threshold and Implications for Nuclear Medicine, Deep Underground Detector Backgrounds, and Nucleosynthesis

Zach Meisel, Gula Hamad, Kristyn Brandenburg +8

We report thick target yields of ${}^{65}\mathrm{Cu}(\alpha ,n{)}^{68}\mathrm{Ga}$ from $\alpha$ energies $E_{\alpha }$$=$6.5--8~MeV measured via neutron-counting at the Edwards Accelerator Laboratory at Ohio…