Activation cross-sections of deuteron-induced nuclear reactions on natural iron up to 24 MeV

Activation cross-sections of the natFe(d,x)55,56,57,58g+mCo, 52g,54,56Mn, 51Cr, 59Fe reactions were measured from their respective thresholds to 24 MeV via a stacked foil activation technique combined with HPGe γ-ray spectrometry. An overall good agreement is found with some of the earlier measurements, whereas partial agreements are obtained with the theoretical data extracted from the TENDL-2011 library. The present measurement reports four cross-sections of 58g+mCo, 56Mn and 59Fe radionuclides in the energy range of 20–24 MeV for the first time. Physical thick target yields deduced from the measured cross-sections are compared with the directly measured yields available in the literature. The measured 58Fe(d,p)59Fe cross section is underestimated by the original TENDL-2011 library while overestimated by the TENDL-2011 library renormalized by Ignatyuk for the FENDL-3 library.