Excitation functions for proton nuclear reactions on ⁶⁴Zn, ⁶⁶Zn, and ⁶⁸Zn by stacked foil method

The excitation functions of the (p, n), the (p, α), and the (p, pn) reactions on ⁶⁴ Zn, ⁶⁶Zn, and ⁶⁸Zn were measured with the stacked foil method and the high-purity Ge (HPGe) semiconductor detector at proton energies from 3 to 18 MeV. We accelerated protons with a proton accelerator of cyclotron type and connected a current integrator with a Faraday cup to measure the flux of proton beam. The incident proton energies were evaluated on each stacked foil by using the semi-experimental stopping power formula. The experimental results were compared with other experimental data and most of them are taken from the experimental nuclear reaction database (EXFOR).