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Studies in the past have demonstrated that complete fusion and incomplete fusion (ICF) dynamics are both significant just above the Coulomb barrier, yet the dynamics of ICF are elusive since they are so complex below 10 MeV/nucleon. In order to investigate low-energy ICF dynamics, we measured the forward recoil range distribution (FRRD) of evaporation residues (ERs) populated in the system 14N + 169Tm at energy ≈5.9 MeV/nucleon. A stack target-catcher activation technique followed by offline-γ-spectroscopy was used to estimate the FRRD of the ERs. In order to investigate a new parameter for describing ICF dynamics, the ICF fraction (F ICF(%)) for the present system was estimated from the range-integrated cross-sections and compared with other systems in the literature. The FRRD and range integrated cross-sections of seven ERs have been estimated experimentally. These cross-section results agree well with the experimental results obtained from the excitation functions. On re-investigation of entrance channel systematics for Q α -value of projectile, mass-asymmetry (μ MA), and Coulomb factor (Z P Z T), it has been found that the Q α -value systematic for 14N is not valid at all projectile energies. The FRRD measurement is one of the direct methods available to probe the complete and ICF contributions in ERs at low projectile energy. It has also been observed that the dynamics of ICF are not only dependent on the parameters of one entrance channel but on multiple entrance channels. We have also introduced the entrance channel parameter zeta (ζ) for the first time in ICF reactions to see the combined effect of mass-asymmetry (μ MA) and Z P Z T, as this parameter is better suited than μ MA and Z P Z T individually and has a linear dependency on F ICF(%).

An overview of the experiments performed at RIBRAS over the last year is presented. Elastic scattering and breakup reactions induced by light exotic projectiles on different targets have been measured and some results are presented here for the 120Sn(6He, α) reaction. Resonant scattering experiments have been performed with 10Be and 12C secondary beams on a CH2 thick target and the well known 12C+p resonance was identified. A gamma-particle experiment using a new system of LYSO scintillators to detect gammas was done.

In this work we present an elastic scattering angular distribution for the 8Li+58Ni system measured at Elab = 26.1 MeV. The 8Li beam was produced in the Radioactive Ion Beams in Brasil (RIBRAS) facility using the 7Li primary beam delivered by the 8-UD Pelletron accelerator. The angular distribution covers the angular range from 20 to 85 degrees in the center of mass frame. The data have been analysed by optical model and coupled channels calculations, including couplings to low-lying states in 8Li and the spin-orbit interaction. Our results indicate that the inclusion of the spin-orbit interaction in the calculations is important to describe the data at backward angles.

Evaporation residue (ER) and fission cross sections were measured for the reaction O+ forming the compound nucleus 212Rn. Fission fragment angular distributions and anisotropies are consistent with the saddle point model predictions. Measured ER cross sections were fitted with statistical model calculations assuming shell-corrected free energy fission barrier height. The non-zero dissipation strength required to fit the ER cross section supports the dissipative nature of fission dynamics in heavy ion fusion. In the present study shell closure effects are not observed in the dissipation strength.

The study of nuclear states built on clusters bound by valence neutrons in their molecular configurations is a field of large interest, which is being renewed by the availability of exotic beams : clustering is, in fact, predicted to become very important at the drip-line, where weakly bound systems will prevail. Although for light nuclei at an excitation energy close to the particle separation value there are experimental evidences of such structure effects, this is still not the case for heavier nuclear systems. Many attempts have been done using preformation alpha clustering models, but there is still a lack of experimental data capable to give a direct feedback. In particular, searching for alpha clustering effects in medium mass systems is still a challenge, which can give new hints in this subject. In the past we have studied the reactions 250, 192 and 130 MeV O-16 + Sn-116, observing a significant increase in the fast emitted a-particle yield. This effect was ascribed to the presence of pre-formed a-clusters in the O-16 projectile nucleus. In order to investigate these aspects, in a model independent way, a new experimental campaign has been performed with the GARFIELD + RCo set up, to compare results from two different reactions : a double magic alpha-cluster (O-16) and a non-magic alpha-cluster projectile (F-19) at the same beam velocity (16AMeV) have been chosen, impinging respectively on Cu-65 and Ni-62 targets, thus leading to the same Rb-81* compound nucleus. The angular distributions and the light charged particles emission spectra in coincidence with evaporation residues have been measured and analyzed. The preliminary results of the data analysis and the main features of the theoretical model used for their interpretation are presented.