Overview of mercury radionuclides and nuclear model calculations of 195Hgm,g and 197Hgm,g to evaluate experimental cross section data

Theoretical studies of isomers through nuclear reaction model calculations significantly assist the estimation of the different experimental data reported from different databases. In this paper, the production methods and the applications of mercury radionuclides are reviewed with special attention to the feasibility of the cyclotron production of mercury radionuclides, including ¹⁹⁵Hg^m,g and ¹⁹⁷Hg^m,g. First, talys and empire codes were employed to illustrate the formation of both the isomeric and the ground states of the mercury radionuclides. Then the excitation function was calculated via a variety of nuclear processes using the codes and the data taken from the TENDL database. Then we compared the data with the reported experimental measurement. The mercury radionuclide production yield was evaluated with concentration on the excitation function calculations and the stopping powers of the projectiles in the targets. Last, the ¹⁹⁷Au(d,2n) and ¹⁹⁷Au(p,3n) reactions were selected as the best reactions to produce ¹⁹⁷Hg^m,g and ¹⁹⁵Hg^m,g, respectively.