Mass and isotopic yield distribution of fission like events in ¹⁶O + ¹⁷⁵Lu system at 6 MeV/A

In the present work, production cross-sections for several fission like events after complete fusion (CF) and/or incomplete (ICF) in ¹⁶O + ^175Lu system at ≈ 5.5 MeV/A and 6.25 MeV/A have been measured to study mass and charge distributions. The well established activation technique was used for the present measurements. Moreover, isotopic yield distributions have also been studied using experimentally measured production cross-sections of few isotopes like Yttrium (Y) and Indium (In) which have been found to be symmetric as expected. Analysis of the data indicates that the nuclear fission is one of the dominating decay modes of heavy nuclei expected to be populated via complete and/or incomplete fusion at incident ¹⁶O energies 5.5 and 6.25 MeV/A, where the evaporation of light nuclear particles are most likely to be expected. The statistical analysis of the isotopic yield distribution has also been carried out and the most probable values of mass and charge of fission like products were determined for the present system. (author)