Heavy residues following 5--10 MeV/nucleon 12C- and 14N- induced reactions on Sm and Pr targets

The individual evaporation residue cross sections have been measured for 12C- and 14N-induced reactions on 141Pr and /sup 144,147,150,152,15/ 4Sm targets at incident energies of 5 to 10 MeV/nucleon. Gamma-ray detection techniques were used. The competition between neutron, charged particle, and gamma-ray emission was studied as a function of the excitation energy, angular momentum, and the distance of the compound nucleus from the stability line. The general behavior of the mass and charge distributions of the reaction residues is in agreement with complete fusion-evaporation calculations, but some aspects of the data point to a small contribution of other reaction mechanisms