Title: Activation cross-section data for alpha-particle induced nuclear reactions on natural ytterbium for some longer lived radioisotopes,
Abstract: Additional experimental cross sections were deduced for the long half-life
activation products (172Hf and 173Lu) from the alpha particle induced reactions
on ytterbium up to 38 MeV from late, long measurements and for 175Yb, 167Tm
from a re-evaluation of earlier measured spectra. The cross-sections are
compared with the earlier experimental datasets and with the data based on the
TALYS theoretical nuclear reaction model (available in the TENDL-2014 and 2015
libraries) and the ALICE-IPPE code.