Fission fragment mass distribution in ³²S + ¹⁶⁰Gd reaction

Recent endeavours to understand the fission dynamics of nuclei in the sub-lead region have provided necessary insights into the fusion-fission phenomenon. The center-point of studying fission in these nuclei being the possibility of a new kind of asymmetric fission found in A≤200 nuclei with the discovery of mass asymmetric fission in low energy (βdelayed) fission of ¹⁸⁰Hg which reported the masses to be peaked at 80(1) and 100(1) u, a contrary to the fact that spherical shell gaps in ⁹⁰Zr would demand a symmetric fission. In this scenario, we have made mass and total kinetic energy distribution measurement of ¹⁹²Hg nuclei using ³²S + ¹⁶⁰Gd reaction at projectile energies 140, 152, and 163.6 MeV to further investigate the region for observed peculiarities