Angular momentum effects on the decay modes of hot compound nuclei formed in 86Kr+134,138Ba reactions

The dependence of decay modes of hot compound nuclei formed in [Formula: see text]Kr[Formula: see text]Ba reactions on the angular momentum has been analyzed using the dynamical cluster-decay model. This has been done by analyzing the change of fragmentation potential, preformation probability, penetrability and cross-section as a function of the fragment mass number at various values of the angular momentum. The evaporation residue cross-section calculated using dynamical cluster-decay model has been compared with the measured one for the channels: [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] for the decay of [Formula: see text]U[Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] for [Formula: see text]U[Formula: see text]. The summed up fragment cross-sections for the light particles, intermediate mass fragments and fission fragments as a function of angular momentum have been studied which gives an idea for the change of reaction mechanism with angular momentum. The charge distribution of the fission fragment cross-section shows an odd–even staggering, i.e., the probability of even-Z fission fragments is relatively higher than others. The mass distributions obtained within the dynamical cluster-decay model for the decay of [Formula: see text]U[Formula: see text] are in conformity with mass distributions determined by means of the double kinetic-energy technique in literature. The position of the most probable channel has been found to be fixed to a constant atomic number instead of mass number.