The 32nd World Conference of the International Nuclear Target Development Society (INTDS2026)

Session

MOB1

31 Aug 2026, 13:20

RIKEN Wako Campus

22. METALLIC HAFNIUM TARGETS

Birgit Kindler (GSI Helmholtzzentrum fuer Schwerionenforschung)

31/08/2026, 13:20

Hafnium isotopes are interesting candidates in experiments studying shell effects and nuclear reaction mech-anisms. The general availability and price of enriched isotopes determines if producing targets from the want-ed isotope is realistically feasible.
For future applications, we investigated the yields achievable when producing metallic hafnium targets with the methods available at the...

26. Tailoring ligand design for adjacent lanthanide separations

Prof. Ilja Popovs (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

31/08/2026, 13:40

Lanthanide isotopes such as Pm-147, Gd-153, Tb-161, and Lu-177 are indispensable for nuclear medicine and materials research. Their domestic supply, however, is constrained by one of the toughest challenges: separating neighboring lanthanides whose chemical properties are nearly identical. Conventional cation‑exchange processes with α‑hydroxyisobutyric acid offer only modest separation factors...

31. RUTHENIUM TARGET PRODUCTION OF DIFFERENT THICKNESSES

Claus Mueller Gatermann (Argonne National Laboratory)

31/08/2026, 14:00

Natural ruthenium targets were needed for a measurement of the excitation function and cross sections using a high energetic proton beam. The experiment aims for a stacked target setup with monitor foils and offline counting of the activation using high purity germanium detectors. The optimal thickness and size of the target of 2 - 2.5centimeters in diameter and 20 – 100 micrometers (at...

32. INTERFERENCE COLOR ANALYSIS FOR THICKNESS ESTIMATION OF MOLEC-ULAR-PLATED GADOLINIUM FILMS

Dr emilio andrea maugeri (Paul Scherrer Institut)

31/08/2026, 14:20

Molecular plating (MP) is a widely used technique for preparing thin targets for nuclear physics applications, including cross-section measurements [1-3] and muon spectroscopy [4]. Target characterization typically relies on areal density (mg/cm²), which gives the total amount of material but not its spatial distribution. In non-uniform films, the same total mass can correspond to different...

52. MICROSCOPIC AND SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS OF HEAVY-ION BEAM IRRADIATED F-ELEMENT TARGETS

Christoph Düllmann (JGU Mainz / GSI Darmstadt / HIM Mainz)

31/08/2026, 14:40

The synthesis of the heaviest known elements is mostly based on irradiation of actinide targets [1,2] with intense heavy-ion beams at energies around the Coulomb barrier, with Ca-48 being a key projectile [3]. Target production relies generally on the molecular plating technique, which was invented five decades ago [4] and is based on the electrochemical deposition of actinides from alcoholic...