Production Rate of 10Be from Oxygen Spallation

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WHEN oxygen is spallated with high energy protons, one of the possible reaction products is the radionuclide 10Be (half-life, 2.7 × 106 yr). Knowledge of the cross-section for this reaction is of considerable importance in cosmic ray physics1 and nuclear astrophysics2, but the direct measurements that exist for this are in disagreement by a factor of about 8. Honda and Lal3 measured 10Be radiochemically in a carbon target bombarded with 220 MeV protons and gave a value for its production cross-section as (1.8 +/- 0.6) mb. This becomes 2.2 mb after correction for the latest monitor cross-section. Honda and Lal also found a similar value in a target. The correctness of these measurements and their applicability to the spal-lation of atmospheric air nuclei have been demonstrated by the good agreement between the measured deposition rate of cosmogenic 10Be from atmospheric fall-out with the calculated ``global'' production rate based on the cross-section data4.

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