Deuteron activation of natMo - focus on short-lived products

The deuteron-induced reactions at low and medium energies have a great importance in on-going strategic research programs for international large-scale facilities.
The activations by deuterons are complex. Due to their low binding energy, multiple different mechanisms (compound nucleus, direct, breakup etc.) are involved.
Theoretical models, that do not take into account these mechanisms have a limited predictive power. Theory needs more data with a sufficient quality to be able to extract the relevant information. We suggest to perform the activation measurement induced by reaction natMo(d,*) in the energy range 20-40 MeV at SPIRAL2/NFS.

The Irradiation Chamber in NFS, that is coupled to the Pneumatic Transfer System of samples will particularly allow to gather new information on 91mMo, 92Tc, where no data are available due to minute half-lives and on 96mTc, 97mTc, 101Mo and 101Tc, where the available data are limited or questionable.