The precise knowledge of production cross sections for
specific radionuclides for medium energies (10 MeV to 100
GeV) of the incident particle gains ever more importance,
not only for nuclear physics but also for many applications,
e.g. astrophysics, radiation protection at accelerators but
also on space flights, radioisotope techniques in medicine
and for industrial applications and perhaps even for the
removal of nuclear waste by accelerators.
Since the last systematic review of these production cross
sections in 1973 (LB I/5a, b, c) an impressive amount of new
experimental data has been accumulated. In the first three
parts of this volume already a huge amount of data has been
compiled for the production of radioisotopes by medium
energetic protons on targets from He to Am. The precise
values of the cross sections can be taken from the tables,
whereas the figures show the general trend of the cross
sections and can be more readily used for interpolations. In
the fourth part of this volume supplement data for
subvolumes I/13a, b and c will be compiled. The origin of
the authors made it possible to include also data from the
USSR and other East European states which sometimes are not
easy to access. The tables and figures have been compiled
with extraordinary care and should present the most complete
compilation for this type of nuclear reactions.

Contributions by: A.S. Iljinov, V.G. Semenov, M.P. Semenova, N.M. Sobolevsky, L.V. Udovenko