Fusion studies at around the barrier energies: A case 10B+27Al system

Abstract

Abstract Nuclear Reactions around the Coulomb barrier are complex in nature due to the existence of non-fusion channels at these energies, and offers excellent opportunities to explore several dynamical effects as well as the sub-lime effects of nuclear structure. Some of the outstanding issues related to nuclear reactions at these energies are: the role of nucleon transfer events in the manipulation of fusion cross-section, and pairing correlations. As such, an experiment was performed to carry out some conclusive measurements for the 10B+27Al system at energies ≈ 1.3 - 1.7 MeV/A. The experiment based on γ-ray spectroscopy has been performed at the Tandem Laboratory, National Institute of Nuclear Investigation, Mexico, to obtain the fusion cross-sections at several beam energies. In the present paper, some experimental details, analysis and preliminary results are presented.