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Diwanshu^1,*, A. Kumar¹, B. Rohila^1,2, C. Sharma¹, Subodh¹, P. S. Rawat³, A. Pandey³, K. Katre⁴, H. Arora⁵, U. S. Ghosh⁴, Yashraj⁴, I. Sharma⁶, H. P. Sharma⁶, S. K. Chamoli³, S. Kumar³, R. P. Singh⁴, S. Muralithar<sup>4

1</sup> Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
² Department of Physics, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
³ Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
⁴ Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi, India
⁵ Central Michigan University, Michigan, USA
⁶ Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

^*Corresponding author. E-mail address: diwanshusharma96@gmail.com

Abstract: The decay mechanism of the highly excited compound nucleus ¹²³Cs populated via fusion evaporation reaction of ¹⁶O and ¹⁰⁷Ag is studied. De-excitation of the compound nucleus via evaporation of p, n, and α particles leads to a population of several neutron-deficient residual nuclei. The excitation function for the ¹⁶O + ¹⁰⁷Ag reaction has been determined experimentally in the energy range 71 - 80 MeV above the Coulomb barrier. The experimental results have been analyzed within the framework of statistical codes PACE4 and CASCADE.

Keywords: excitation function, compound nucleus, PACE4, CASCADE.

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