Production of 186gRe using low-energy protons

This work develops a theoretical-experimental procedure for production of Re-186g radionuclide at low energy cyclotrons. TALYS code with different level density models is used to calculate the excitation function of W-nat(p,x)Re-186g reaction up to 30 MeV incident energy. To prepare the target, the natural tungsten is deposited on a copper substrate via sedimentation technique. The target is irradiated by 15 MeV protons at 20 mu A beam current for 1 h. Re-186g is radiochemically separated from tungsten contaminations and its production yield is measured. In parallel to the experiment, a Monte Carlo method is appended to simulate the irradiation process.