Evaporation protons from the low-energy fusion of 6Li + 58Ni

Abstract

Very recently, fusion cross sections for the weakly-bound proton-rich systems (8B,7Be) + 58Ni were obtained by using a technique where the protons evaporated after the respective fusion reaction were measured. In the present work, the same technique is applied to get fusion cross sections for the 6 Li + 58Ni system at sub-barrier energies. Comparison with data reported previously for 6Li projectiles on similar targets gives consistent results, even though the previous data were obtained with quite different techniques.