Fusion measurements for the 7Li + 51V system at energies around the Coulomb barrier

Abstract

We present the experimental fusion cross sections for the 7Li + 51V system measured using the EN Tandem Van de Graaff Accelerator facility at National Institute of Nuclear Research (ININ), in Mexico. The study was focused on energies around the Coulomb barrier, B = 10.33 MeV (Blab = 11.75 MeV), in the interval from 10.0 MeV to 13.5 MeV in steps of 0.5 MeV, in the laboratory frame. In order to complement this study, the experimental results were compared with a fusion-evaporation analysis using the PACE2, LILITA and CASCADE codes, in the same interval of energies. We found that the xn and xnα are the most relevant evaporation channels, leading to 55Fe, 56Fe, 52Cr and 53Cr as residual nuclei.