  Activation cross sections of proton induced nuclear reactions on palladium
were measured up to 80 MeV by using the stacked foil irradiation technique and
gamma ray spectrometry. The beam intensity, the incident energy and the energy
degradation were controlled by a method based on flux constancy via
normalization to the excitation functions of monitor reactions measured in
parallel. Excitation functions for direct and cumulative cross-sections were
measured for the production of ${}^{104m,104g,105}$${}^{g,106m,110m}$Ag,
${}^{100,101}$Pd, ${}^{99m,99g,100,}$${}^{101m}$${}^{,101g,102m,102g,105}$Rh
and ${}^{103,}$${}^{97}$Ru radioisotopes. The cross section data were compared
with the theoretical predictions of TENDL-2014 and -2015 libraries. For
practical applications thick target yields were derived from the measured
excitation functions. Application in the field of medical radionuclide
production is shortly discussed.
