Photoactivation experiment of ~(197)Au(γ, n) performed with 9.17-MeV γ-ray from ~(13)C(p, γ)~(14)N

High energy γ-ray can be used for nuclear waste transmutation by using the giant dipole resonance(GDR). The photonuclear reaction ~(197)Au(γ, n) is known as a standard for studies on photoactivation experiments. The previous experiments on ~(197)Au(γ, n) have been performed with bremsstrahlung, positron annihilation in flight or laser Compton scattering γ-ray.In this work, a new mono-energetic γ-ray source based on ~(13)C(p, γ)~(14)N reaction is used to measure the cross section of ~(197)Au(γ, n) and the measured value is compared with the results obtained with other ways.