Excitation function of the p+natAg reactions in the energy range 10-22 MeV

The excitation functions of the proton induced Anatg reactions were measured using the stack foil activation followed by the off-line γ-ray spectrometry. The present work was carried out at 14UD BARC-TIFR Pelletron accelerator, Mumbai, India. The proton beam of 22 MeV was used for the irradiation of the samples and was degraded along the stack of silver foils. The measured cross-section data were compared with the existing literature data available in EXFOR. The calculated excitation functions were also compared with the calculated values from TALYS-1.9 model code using a suitable input parameters for the pure compound nucleus (CN) and pre-equilibrium (PE) reaction cross-sections. ALICE-2014 code was also used to validate the present experimental findings as well as the TALYS-1.9 results.