Investigating the (p,n) excitation functions on 104-106,108,110 Pd isotopes.

Palladium is known to play an important role in cold nuclear fusion technology because of hydrogen storage characteristics. In this paper, the excitation functions of104 Pd (p,n)104 Ag,105 Pd (p,n)105 Ag,106 Pd (p,n)106 Ag,108 Pd (p,n)108 Ag and110 Pd (p,n)110 Ag nuclear reactions were calculated for proton energies up to 20MeV. Contribution of various level density models on the calculations of (p,n) excitation functions was investigated using the nuclear theory codes such as TALYS 1.6 and ALICE/ASH. A comparison of the predicted and measured cross section data was also presented.