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The excitation function of the \(^{nat}\)Zr(p,x)\(^{90}\)Nb, \(^{nat}\)Zr(p,x)\(^{91m}\)Nb and \(^{nat}\)Zr(p,x)\(^{92m}\)Nb reactions were measured within the incident proton energies range of 10.58 MeV to 43.61 MeV, based on the stacked-foil activation technique. The degradation of proton energy along the sample stack was calculated using the code SRIM-2013, and the proton flux was determined by using the \(^{nat}\)Cu(p,x)\(^{62,65}\)Zn monitor reactions. The induced \(\gamma \)-ray activity needed to determine the reaction cross-section was measured by using an HPGe detector. The measured cross sections are compared with the literature data and with the theoretical predictions based on TALYS-1.95 code. For the theoretical calculations, the effect of different level density models and \(\gamma \)-ray strength functions was taken into account. Besides the measured excitation functions, the integral yields of \(^{90}\)Nb, \(^{91m}\)Nb and \(^{92m}\)Nb formation were also calculated.
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This manuscript has associated data in a data repository. [Authors’ comment: All data used in this paper are deposited in the EXFOR data library (http://www-nds.iaea.org/exfor) and TENDEL-2019 data library (http://tendl.web.psi.ch/tendl_2019/tendl2019.html) and the data produced during this study will be deposited in the EXFOR data library.]
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The authors would like to express their sincere thanks to the staff of the MC-50 Cyclotron in the Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences (KIRAMS) for the excellent operation and their support during the experiment. This research was partly supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea through a grant provided by the Ministry of Science and ICT (NRF-2017R1D1A1B03030484, and NRF-2018R1A6A1A06024970) and by the Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) under Grant No. 103.04-2018.314.
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Van Do, N., Thanh Luan, N., Tien Thanh, K. et al. Excitation functions for the formation of \(^{90}\)Nb, \(^{91\mathrm{m}}\)Nb and \(^{92\mathrm{m}}\)Nb in the \(^{\mathrm{nat}}\)Zr(p,x) reactions. Eur. Phys. J. A 57, 324 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-021-00632-3
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