Experimental investigation and nuclear model calculations on proton-induced reactions on highly enriched 114Cd at low energies

The excitation functions of both Cd(p,n)114mIn114 and Cd(p,2n)113mIn114 reactions were evaluated experimentally by the stacked-foil technique on highly enriched 114Cd isotope. Two stacks were irradiated by proton beam with energies 14.7 and 18MeV on the MGC-20 cyclotron at Nuclear Research Center, AEA, Egypt. The present results support the previous measurements. The theoretical interpretations of the measured excitation functions were done by EMPIRE-II (v2.18 Mondovi) code. Compatibility with predictions of hybrid Monte Carlo simulation (HMS) pre-equilibrium mechanism was obtained