ENTRANCE-CHANNEL EFFECTS IN THE DYNAMICAL CLUSTER-DECAY MODEL FOR THE DECAY OF HOT AND ROTATING COMPOUND NUCLEUS ⁴⁸<font>Cr</font> AT ${\rm E}_{CN}^{*}\approx 60\, {\rm MeV}$

Abstract

The entrance-channel effects in the decay of hot and rotating compound nucleus 48 Cr *, formed in symmetric 24 Mg + 24 Mg and asymmetric 36 Ar + 12 C reactions, are studied as collective clusterization process, for emissions of both the light particles (LPs) as well as the intermediate mass fragments (IMFs), with in the dynamical cluster-decay model (DCM). We find that the little differences observed in the decay of equilibrated compound nucleus 48 Cr *, formed in the two entrance channels with about the same excitation energy, are not in variance with the Bohr's independence hypothesis. In other words, the present study confirms the entrance-channel independence of the decay of compound nucleus 48 Cr * formed due to different target-projectile combinations with similar excitation energies. The collective clusterization process is shown to contain the complete structure of the measured fragment cross sections as well as average total kinetic energies.