Neutron multiplicity studies in case of ³⁰Si+²³²Th reaction

The fission fragment-mass-TKE distributions along with neutron multiplicities in the system ⁵⁰Ti + ²⁰⁸Pb forming the compound nucleus (CN) ²⁵⁸Rf at 294 MeV bombarding energy have been studied. Authors in this paper reported that observed results are consistent with fusion-fission process with possible small contribution coming from quasi-fission events. More recently, Thakur et al., have studied the mass-gated neutron multiplicity at 273 MeV bombarding energy in the system ⁴⁸Ti + ²⁰⁸Pb forming the CN ²⁵⁶Rf and found non-negligible quasi-fission events. In the present experiment mass-gated neutron multiplicity measurements have been carried out for the system ³⁰Si + ²³²Th, forming similar but more asymmetric CN ²⁶²Rf to understand the reaction mechanism of fusion-fission and quasi-fission in the near super heavy nucleus