Measurement of the flux-weighted average cross section for the 186W(γ, p) 185Ta reaction at the bremsstrahlung end-point energy of 70 MeV

The experimental flux-weighted average cross section is compared with the theoretical prediction, for which the absolute cross section was calculated using the TALYS 1.95 code and the bremsstrahlung spectrum was simulated using the computer program MCNPX. The present experiment was carried out at the 100 MeV electron linac of the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea.