Theoretical study of ¹⁰⁹Ag(α, n) reaction from the threshold up to 20 MeV

The α induced reactions are important to study due to the breakup problem of the projectile as its binding energy is large. The study of α-induced reactions and their possible isomeric cross-section ratio (ICR) have significant importance for testing nuclear models. The cross section production of isomeric states is more difficult to be predicted than for the total reaction channels due to the detailed structure of the residual nucleus has been taken into consideration. The ¹⁰⁹Ag(α, n)¹¹²In reaction has been studied theoretically in the present work. The present work describes the scarcity of experimental data. More measurements are needed for this reaction channel to validate the theoretical calculations