Eur. Phys. J. A (2005) 25: 299-301
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjad/i2005-06-066-4

ENAM 2004

Entrance channel dependence in compound nuclear reactions with loosely bound nuclei^⋆

¹ Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhan nagar, 700 064, Kolkata, India
² Physics Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, 23284, Richmond, VA, USA
³ Department of Physics, University of Kalyani, 741 235, Kalyani, West Bengal, India
⁴ Nuclear Physics Division, BARC, 400 085, Mumbai, India

^* e-mail: chhanda@lotus.saha.ernet.in

Received: 15 April 2004
Accepted: 18 February 2005
Published online: 12 May 2005

Abstract

The measurement of light charged particles evaporated from the reaction

^{6, 7}Li$ + $⁶Li

has been carried out at extreme backward angle in the energy range 14-20MeV. Calculations from the code ALICE91 show that the symmetry of the target-projectile combination and the choice of level density parameter play important roles in explaining the evaporation spectra for these light particle systems. In the above barrier energy region the fusion cross-section is not suppressed for these loosely bound nuclei.