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Manganese isotopes have recently found increasing potential applications in various fields, including nuclear medicine. In the present work, the excitation functions for some manganese isotopes have been measured from deuteron-induced nuclear reactions on natural nickel metals from 24 MeV energy down to threshold using the well-established stacked-foil activation procedure. The activation products were measured for emitted characteristic gamma lines using HPGe γ-ray spectrometry. The data was used for the calculation of cross sections of the radionuclides of interests, the 52,54,56Mn. The measured cross sections have also been compared with the all accessed literature data and also the theoretical prediction of Talys code via its latest library, the TENDL-2021. Present work show reasonable agreement with the literature data for the isotopes of interest. Our work show that, on the other hand, the theoretical data extracted from the TENDL-2021 library could not reproduce the experimental data of this study. The present measured data could have potential applications in improving the predicting capability of the Talys nuclear reactions model code as well as serve as additional data for nuclear reactions cross sections database. KEYWORD: Cyclotron, deuteron-particles, cross-sections, excitation functions, Radionuclides of 52Mn, 54Mn and 56Mn.
