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This paper addresses a crucial experimental challenge in nuclear physics: accurately accounting for impurities in target materials. The authors develop a data-driven method to correct for oxygen and carbon contamination in calcium targets, which is essential for obtaining reliable cross-section measurements of the Ca(p,pα) reaction. The significance lies in its ability to improve the accuracy of nuclear reaction data, which is vital for understanding nuclear structure and reaction mechanisms. The method's strength is its independence from model assumptions, making the results more robust.
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The method does not rely on assumptions about absolute contamination levels or reaction-model calculations, and enables a consistent and reliable determination of Ca$(p,pα)$ yields across the calcium isotopic chain.