A theoretical study on the impact of centrifugal potential and fragment identification in the decay of compound nuclei (ACN = 60&100)

Decay analysis of compound nuclei such as [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] formed in [Formula: see text]Ca and [Formula: see text]Ni reactions, respectively, is studied using two theoretical frameworks, dynamical cluster-decay model (DCM) and PACE4. To explore the decay dynamics in a relatively lighter mass region [Formula: see text], two more reactions are picked (i) [Formula: see text]Mg forming the [Formula: see text] compound nucleus, (ii) another one involving the odd mass projectile, [Formula: see text]. In DCM, the fusion excitation functions are calculated using sticking [Formula: see text] and nonsticking [Formula: see text] limits of the moment of inertia. For the chosen reactions, fusion cross-sections are equivalent to evaporation residue (ER) cross-sections [Formula: see text] as fission cross-sections are negligible. A lower magnitude of maximum angular momentum [Formula: see text] is obtained via the [Formula: see text] approach in comparison to the [Formula: see text] approach and the angular momentum obtained via the [Formula: see text] approach is closer to the experimental observations. The structure and magnitude of fragmentation potential and preformation probability [Formula: see text] depend on the choice of moment of inertia and the magnitude of angular momentum involved. Besides this, PACE4 is employed to address the fusion cross-section of chosen reactions. The most probable decay channel is identified using both DCM and PACE4 approaches.