CROSS-SECTIONS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF RESIDUAL NUCLIDES BY LOW-ENERGY AND MEDIUM-ENERGY PROTONS FROM THE TARGET ELEMENTS C, N, O, MG, AL, SI, CA, TI, V, MN, FE, CO, NI, CU, SR, Y, ZR, NB, BA AND AU

Cross sections for residual nuclide production by p-induced reactions were measured from thresholds up to 2.6 GeV using accelerators at CERN /Geneve, IPN/Orsay, KFA/Julich, LANL/Los Alamos, LNS/Saclay, PSI/Villi gen, TSL/Uppsala, LUC/Louvain La Neuve. The target elements C, N, O, M g, Al, Si, Ca, Ti, V, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Sr, Y, Zr, Nb, Ba and Au wer e investigated. Residual nuclides were measured by X- and gamma-spectr ometry and by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS). The measured cross sections were corrected for interfering secondary particles in experim ents with primary proton energies above 200 MeV. Our consistent databa se covers presently ca 550 nuclear reactions and contains nearly 15000 individual cross sections of which about 10000 are reported here for the first time. They provide a basis for model calculations of the pro duction of cosmogenic nuclides in extraterrestrial matter by solar and galactic cosmic ray protons. They are of importance for many other ap plications in which medium energy nuclear reactions have to be conside red ranging from astrophysics over space and environmental sciences to accelerator technology and accelerator-based nuclear waste transmutat ion and energy amplification. The experimental data are compared with theoretical ones based on calculations using an INC/E model in form of the HETC/KFA2 code and on the hybrid model of preequilibrium reaction s in form of the AREL code.