Experimental study of cross-sections for some medical radioisotopes production via proton induced nuclear reactions on natMo up to 40 MeV

The activation technique has been used to measure the excitation functions of the $^{nat}$Mo(p,xn), $^{nat}$Mo(p,pxn) and $^{nat}$Mo(p,$\alpha $xn) nuclear reactions up to 40 MeV using the proton beam from the K500 superconducting cyclotron of the Texas A{\&}M Cyclotron Institute. A stack was made from several groups of targets: $^{nat}$Mo,$^{nat}$Al and $^{nat}$Cu, with the Al and Cu as monitor foils to measure the excitation functions of the well known cross-sections monitor reactions $^{27}$Al(p,x)$^{24}$Na and $^{nat}$Cu(p,x)$^{62}$Zn simultaneously with the reactions induced on the targets. The determined excitation functions were compared with the available previous published research and with the ALICE-IPPE pre-compound hybrid model simulated calculations. The integral yield (MBq.$\mu $A$^{-1}$.h$^{-1})$ of the $^{nat}$Mo(p,X) nuclear reactions deduced using the excitation functions and the stopping power of $^{nat}$Mo.