Feb 15 – 19, 2026
Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
Europe/Rome timezone
12th International Conference on Isotopes - 12ICI

DATA-DRIVEN OPTIMIZATION OF TERBIUM PRODUCTION VIA nat-Eu(α,x) REACTIONS: FROM EXPERIMENTS TO NSGA-II MODELLING

Feb 17, 2026, 5:29 PM
15m
Plenaria: Africa Room (Grand Hotel Mediterraneo)

Plenaria: Africa Room

Grand Hotel Mediterraneo

Oral presentation 1. Isotopes Production and Devices 1. Isotopes Production and Devices - Tue_S3_A

Speaker

Michele Colucci (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Summary

The Health Physics group at LASA laboratory in Milan has a long-standing tradition in the study and optimization of accelerator-based radionuclide production for medical and environmental applications. In the last decade, research efforts have focused on theranostic radionuclides, with special emphasis on terbium, whose four isotopes (149,152,155,161Tb) offer complementary emissions suitable for therapy and imaging. A wide range of experimental campaigns has been carried out within this framework, exploring light-ion-induced reactions on various rare-earth targets to assess alternative production routes for terbium isotopes. Among these studies, the α-induced reactions on natural europium (natEu(α,x)) represent a cornerstone. This work presents the results of that investigation and their subsequent use in multi-objective optimization of production parameters through NSGA-II modelling.

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Authors

Michele Colucci (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Simone Manenti (Department of Physics, University of Milan)

Co-authors

Arnaud GUERTIN (CNRS/IN2P3/SUBATECH) Etienne NIGRON (GIP ARRONAX) Ferid Haddad Flavia Maria Groppi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

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