Excitation functions of the proton induced nuclear reactions on natural zirconium

Excitation functions for the natZr(p,xn)90,92m,95g,96Nb, natZr(p,pxn)88,89Zr, and natZr(p,αxn)86,87m,87mg,88Y reactions were measured by using a stacked-foil activation technique in combination with HPGe γ-ray spectroscopy using the MC50 cyclotron at the Korean Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Korea. In this way the proton beam energy range 4–40 MeV was covered. We report new data for these processes. The data were compared with the results of precompound-hybrid model calculations, whereby only a partial agreement was obtained.