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Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Vol. 4, Issue 6, 064401 (2019)

Photonuclear production of medical isotopes ^62,64Cu using intense laser-plasma electron source

ZhiGuo Ma¹, HaoYang Lan¹, WeiYuan Liu², ShaoDong Wu¹, Yi Xu³, ZhiChao Zhu¹, and Wen Luo^1、a)

Author Affiliations

¹School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of South China, 421001 Hengyang, People’s Republic of China

²Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education) and School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China

³Extreme Light Infrastructure–Nuclear Physics, RO-077125 Magurele, Romania

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ZhiGuo Ma, HaoYang Lan, WeiYuan Liu, ShaoDong Wu, Yi Xu, ZhiChao Zhu, Wen Luo. Photonuclear production of medical isotopes ^62,64Cu using intense laser-plasma electron source[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2019, 4(6): 064401 Copy Citation Text

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ZhiGuo Ma, HaoYang Lan, WeiYuan Liu, ShaoDong Wu, Yi Xu, ZhiChao Zhu, Wen Luo. Photonuclear production of medical isotopes ^62,64Cu using intense laser-plasma electron source[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2019, 4(6): 064401

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