Trekking through fusion meadows and fission valleys

One of the major aspects of today's nuclear physics research is the understanding of the reaction mechanism to produce heavy element (HE) and super heavy elements (SHE). This will provide us an experimental guidance on which reactions are best suited for the production of SHE. Using the major accelerator facilities available in India, we have studied the fission dynamics of actinides and pre-actinides at beam energies close to the Coulomb barrier for different target projectile combinations