Measurement and analysis of excitation functions and forward recoil range distributions in 12C+59Co system

With the motivation of studying complete and incomplete fusion reactions in a C-12+Co-59 projectile target system, the excitation functions for (C, p3n), (C, 2p2n), (C, alpha n), (C, alpha 2n), (C, alpha p3n) and (C, 2 alpha 2n) reactions have been measured up to 80 MeV. The well-known activation technique followed by offline high purity Ge gamma-ray spectroscopy was used. The measured experimental values were compared with the statistical model calculations by using the ALICE-91 and CASCADE codes. For the calculations obtained by CASCADE, the variation of parameter F-theta, which is the ratio of actual moment of inertia to the rigid body value have also been studied. Considerable enhancement of the measured excitation functions compared to theoretical predictions for some channels clearly indicates the presence of incomplete fusion with complete fusion in the present projectile energy range. The measurements of forward recoil range distribution of evaporation residues at 80 MeV projectile energy confirm these observations.