title: Activation cross sections of proton induced nuclear reactions on palladium up to 80MeV.
abstract: Activation cross sections of proton induced nuclear reactions on palladium were measured up to 80MeV by using the stacked foil irradiation technique and gamma ray spectrometry. The beam intensity, the incident energy and the energy degradation were controlled by a method based on flux constancy via normalization to the excitation functions of monitor reactions measured in parallel. Excitation functions for direct and cumulative cross-sections were measured for the production of (104m,104g,105g,106m,110m)Ag, (100,101)Pd, (99m,99g,100,101m,101g,102m,102g,105)Rh and (103,97)Ru radioisotopes. The cross section data were compared with the theoretical predictions of TENDL-2014 and -2015 libraries. For practical applications thick target yields were derived from the measured excitation functions. Application in the field of medical radionuclide production is shortly discussed.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Debrecen, Hungary.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tárkányi
authors.affiliation: Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Debrecen, Hungary. Electronic address: ditroi@atomki.hu.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ditrói
authors.affiliation: Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Debrecen, Hungary.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Takács
authors.affiliation: Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Debrecen, Hungary.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Csikai
authors.affiliation: Cyclotron Laboratory, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hermanne
authors.affiliation: Cyclotron and Radioisotope Center, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Uddin
authors.affiliation: Cyclotron and Radioisotope Center, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Baba
keywords: Cross sections; Palladium target; Production yields; Proton irradiation; Stacked foil technique