Production of Mg28 - State of the Art (open access)

Production of Mg28 - State of the Art

Sheline and Johnson made Mg28 through the reactions Si30(γ,2p)Mg28 and Mg26(α,2p)Mg28 in order to characterize and determine a decay scheme for the new nuclide. Lendner separated a magnesium fraction from the spallation products of the irradiation of chlorine, as sodium chloride, with 340-MeV protons. The 21-h activity that was present was deduced to be Mg28 from the 2.3-m half-life of the Al28 that was milked from it, as Sheline and Johnson had done.
Date: January 21, 1963
Creator: Weiss, Allen J. & Hillman, Manny
System: The UNT Digital Library