Abstract:
Present paper reports the mass distribution of fission events in the 14N+181Ta
reaction at four different projectile energies viz., 82.2 ± 0.8, 79.18 ± 0.82, 76.8 ± 1.2 and 72.9
± 0.91 MeV using recoil catcher technique followed by off-line γ-ray spectrometry. A single
peaked broad Gaussian mass curve has confirmed the nonappearance of any non-compound
nuclear fission. Further, the variance of the mass distribution is compared with the existing
literature data. It has been observed that the lower mass asymmetric system results in a lower
variance of the mass distribution.
