Study of Residual Product Nuclide Yields from 0.1, 0.2, 0.8, and 2.6 GeV Proton-Irradiated nat-Hg Targets

The direct gamma -spectrometry method is used to measure more than 350 residual product nuclide yields from 0.1, 0.2, 0.8 and 2.6 GeV proton irradiated (HgO)-Hg-nat targets. The gamma -spectrometer resolution is of 1.8 keV at the 1332 keV gamma -line. The resultant gamma -spectra are processed by the GENIE2000 code. The gamma -lines are identified, and the cross-sections calculated, by the ITEP-designed SIGMA code using the PCNUDAT radioactive database. The Al-27(p,x)Na-22 reaction is used as monitor. The experimental results are compared with calculations by the LAHET, CEM95, CEM2k, INUCL, CASCADE and YIELDX codes.