A MUKHERJEE¹, M DASGUPTA¹, D J HINDE¹, C R MORTON¹, A C BERRIMAN¹, R D BUTT¹, J O NEWTON¹ and H TIMMERS^1,2

¹ Department of Nuclear Physics, ² Department of Electronic Materials Engineering,  Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia

Abstract.

Fusion cross-sections for the ⁷Li  + ¹²C reaction have been measured at energies above the Coulomb barrier by the direct detection of evaporation residues. The heavy evaporation residues with energies below 3 MeV could not be separated out from the a-particles in the spectrum and hence their contribution was estimated using statistical model calculations. The present work indicates that suppression of fusion cross-sections due to the breakup of  ⁷Li    may not be significant for ⁷Li  + ¹²C reaction at energies around the barrier.

Keywords:  Fusion; breakup; light ion fusion.

Pacs Nos.  25.70.Jj