Activation cross-sections of longer-lived products of proton induced nuclear reactions on dysprosium up to 36 MeV

Highlights: • Proton induced reactions on natural dysprosium up to 36 MeV. • Stacked foil irradiation including monitor and energy degrader foils. • Comparison of experimental results with the ALICE, EMPIRE and TALYS theoretical codes. • Calculation and comparison of thick target integral yields. • Discussion of application fields. - Abstract: Activation cross-sections of longer-lived products of proton induced nuclear reactions on dysprosium were measured up to 36 MeV by using stacked foil irradiation technique and γ-spectrometry. We report for the first time experimental cross-sections for the formation of the radionuclides ^162mHo, ¹⁶¹Ho, ¹⁵⁹Ho, ¹⁵⁹Dy, ¹⁵⁷Dy, ¹⁵⁵Dy, ¹⁶¹Tb, ¹⁶⁰Tb, ¹⁵⁶Tb and ¹⁵⁵Tb. The experimental data were compared with the results of cross-section calculations of the ALICE and EMPIRE nuclear model codes and of the TALYS nuclear reaction model code as listed in the on-line libraries TENDL 2011 and TENDL 2012