A systematics on alpha induced reactions at low energies

The pre-compound emission process in light-ion fusion reactions has been a topic of considerable interest to the nuclear physicists for many years. Although, theoretical and experimental efforts have been devoted to understand the reaction dynamics of pre-compound emission but no systematic study has been carried out for the determination of driving input parameters in such reactions. In order to get parameters describing the pre-compound emission, excitation functions have been measured by using alpha-particle beam on ¹⁴¹Pr target nuclei. Further, based on both semi-classical and quantum mechanical theories, a sensitive analysis of excitation functions has been performed