Measurement of the natHo(d,x) cross-sections up to 17.5 MeV and estimation of the 166mHo impurity López-Melero, Elena Da Silva, Isidro Praena Rodríguez, Antonio Javier Lopez Melero, Elena Therapeutic Auger 165Er Cross-section Deuteron-induced nuclear reaction cross-sections on natural holmium, natHo(d,x) 165Er and natHo(d,x) 166g,mHo, were measured in the energy range of 8–17.5 MeV using a stacked-foil activation technique combined with high resolution -ray spectrometry. Overall, good agreement with previous measurements was observed, while theoretical predictions from both TENDL-2021 and TENDL-2023 showed only partial consistency with the experimental data. The contribution of the undesirable metastable isotopic impurity 166mHo was estimated to be negligible. 2025-10-27T08:27:26Z 2025-10-27T08:27:26Z 2026-02 journal article López-Melero, E., Da Silva, I., & Praena, J. (2026). Measurement of the natHo(d,x) cross-sections up to 17.5 MeV and estimation of the 166mHo impurity. Radiation Physics and Chemistry (Oxford, England: 1993), 239(113333), 113333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2025.113333 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/107447 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2025.113333 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional Elsevier