Production and separation of no-carrier-added ⁴⁸V from ¹⁶O irradiated chlorine target

This is the first report on ⁴⁸V production by heavy ion induced reaction on natural chloride target via ^natCl(¹⁶O,2pxn)⁴⁸V reaction. Four BaCl₂ targets of 3.5 mg/cm² thickness were irradiated with ¹⁶O beam of 45.9 MeV, 54.1 MeV, 63.4 MeV and 70.6 MeV energy. About 1 kBq yield of ⁴⁸V was detected when 63.4 MeV ¹⁶O beam (total 2576 µC integrated charge) interacted with ^natCl target. No-carrier-added (NCA) ⁴⁸V was separated from bulk Ba target by classical precipitation technique using concentrated H₂SO₄. Ba was quantitatively precipitated while ⁴⁸V remained in the supernatant which resulted a high separation factor (∼4000). (author)