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Influence of projectile <alpha>- breakup threshold on complete fusion

A. Mukherjee, Subinit Roy, M. K. Pradhan, M. Saha Sarkar, P. Basu, B. Dasmahapatra, T. Bhattacharya, S. Bhattacharya, S. K. Basu, A. Chatterjee, V. Tripathi, S. Kailas

nucl-exarXiv:nucl-ex/0603024

Abstract

Complete fusion excitations for 11,10B+159Tb have been measured at energies around the respective Coulomb barriers, and the existing complete fusion measurements for 7Li+159Tb have been extended to higher energies. The measurements show significant reduction of complete fusion cross sections at above-barrier energies for both the reactions, 10B+159Tb and 7Li+159Tb, when compared to those for 11B+159Tb. The comparison shows that the extent of suppression of complete fusion cross sections is correlated with the <alpha>-separation energies of the projectiles. Also, the two reactions, 10B+159Tb and 7Li+159Tb were found to produce incomplete fusion products at energies near the respective Coulomb barriers, with the <alpha>- particle emitting channel being the favoured incomplete fusion process in both the cases.

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