Elastic scattering and heavy residue production in the collisions 6,7Li+64 Zn around the Coulomb barrier

Abstract

Elastic scattering angular distributions and heavy residue production cross sections have been measured at different energies around the Coulomb barrier for the systems 6,7Li+64Zn. Optical model fits of the elastic angular distributions were performed using a renormalized double folding potential and absence of usual threshold anomaly in the optical potential was found. Excitation functions for heavy residue production have been measured using an activation technique. Comparison of the data with the results of different calculations show that complete fusion is the dominant reaction mechanism above the barrier, whereas the heavy residue yield below the barrier is mainly due to incomplete fusion and transfer.