Influence of Incomplete Fusion Reaction on Complete Fusion Below 10 Mev/ Nucleon Energies

An attempt has been made in the present work to provide an ample opportunity to explore the information about the influence of incomplete fusion (IC f ) reaction dynamics on complete fusion in heavy ion induced nuclear reactions. e xcitation functions for several evaporation residues produced in the interaction of projectile 16 O with target 175 l u have been measured over the wide projectile energy range ≈ 70-100 MeV. t he recoil-catcher activation technique followed by the offline γ -ray spectroscopy has been used for the present measurements. In case of precursor decay, we have made use of Cavinato et al. formulation to calculate the independent cross-section of the identified residues. t he measured ef s are compared with theoretical predictions of statistical model code PAC e -2 and any enhancement in the measured cross-section from theoretical prediction may be due to IC f reaction process. An attempt has been made to estimate the IC f contribution of the cross-section from the measured excitation function data and the dependence of IC f cross-section on projectile energy.