Experimental nuclear reaction studies at VECC

In recent years, our group at VECC is actively engaged in different experimental studies to explore the different aspects of nuclear reactions. These studies cover a broad range of topics spanning fragment emission mechanism, fusion-fission, quasi fission, nuclear level density and its dependence on excitation energy and spin, cluster structure studies in light nuclei and transfer reactions for study of structure of nuclei of astrophysical interest. A review of our work on fragment emission mechanisms, nuclear level density, studies on the cluster structure of carbon and its various manifestations, with special emphasis on the decay of Hoyle state, will be presented. (author)