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First author publications of Rinku Prajapat

Deciphering the influence of multi-neutron transfer in Si-based fusion reactions around the Coulomb barrier,
Rinku Prajapat, Eur. Phys. J. A 61, 243 (2025).

[url: https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01720-4 ]

Investigation of the role of neutron transfer and fusion hindrance in 28Si+158Gd at deep subbarrier energies,
Rinku Prajapat, Moumita Maiti, Rishabh Kumar, Malvika Sagwal, Gonika, Chandra Kumar, Rohan Biswas, J. Gehlot, S. Nath, and N. Madhavan, Phys. Rev. C 107, 064616 (2023).

[url: https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.107.064616]

Fusion and back-angle quasielastic measurements in 30Si +156Gd near the Coulomb barrier,
Rinku Prajapat, Moumita Maiti, Rishabh Kumar, Malvika Sagwal, Gonika, Chandra Kumar, Rohan Biswas, J. Gehlot, S. Nath, and N. Madhavan, Phys. Rev. C 105, 064612 (2022).

[url: https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.105.064612]

Fabrication and characterization of thin 156,158Gd targets for nuclear fusion reaction studies,
Rinku Prajapat, Moumita Maiti, Abhilash S.R., G. R. Umapathy, D. Kabiraj, S. A. Khan, Deeksha Khandelwal, Anit Dawarb, Vacuum 201, 111033 (2022).

[url: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0042207X22001658 ]

Probing the influence of incomplete fusion in 6Li+89Y reaction up to 7.2 MeV/nucleon energy,
Rinku Prajapat and Moumita Maiti, Phys. Rev. C 103, 034620 (2021).

[url = https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.103.034620]

Fusion-fission events in the 11B +181Ta reaction up to 5.7 MeV/nucleon energy,
Rinku Prajapat, Moumita Maiti, and Deepak Kumar, Phys. Rev. C 103, 014608 (2021).

[url = https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.103.014608]

Analysis of the dynamics of 7Li-induced fusion with natZr up to 44 MeV,
Rinku Prajapat and Moumita Maiti, Phys. Rev. C 101, 064620 (2020).

[url: https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.101.064620 ]

Measurement of residual cross sections in the 7Li+89Y reaction up to 5.7 MeV/nucleon and analysis of fusion mechanisms,
Rinku Prajapat and Moumita Maiti, Phys. Rev. C 101, 024608 (2020).

[url: https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.101.024608 ]

Preequilibrium strength in light heavy-ion induced reactions up to 7 MeV/nucleon, Rinku Prajapat, Moumita Maiti, Deepak Kumar and Amit Chauhan, Phys. Scr. 95, 055306 (2020).
[url: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/ab784e/meta ]

Estimation of production yield of 93mMo and other residues from a 7Li‑induced reaction,
Rinku Prajapat and Moumita Maiti, J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 325, 757 (2020).

[url: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10967-020-07157-x ]

Sub-barrier fusion dynamics in 28,30Si induced reactions with medium mass targets,
Rinku Prajapat, Malvika Sagwal, Moumita Maiti, Rishabh Kumar, Pavneet Kaur, Ankur Singh, Himanshu Sharma, Yasir Arafat, Gonika, Chandra Kumar, Rohan Biswas, J. Gehlot, S. Nath, and N. Madhavan,

EPJ Web of Conf. (Accepted for publication).

Other publications of Rinku Prajapat

Evaporation residue cross section in the 37Cl+68Zn fusion reaction near the Coulomb barrier”,
Amit Chauhan, Rinku Prajapat, Gayatri Sarkar, Moumita Maiti, Rishabh Kumar, Malvika, Gonika, J. Gehlot., S. Nath, A. Parihari, and N. Madhavan, Phys. Rev. C 102, 064606 (2020).

[url = https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.102.064606]

Facets of reaction mechanism in 6Li+181Ta system,
Rishabh Kumar, Rinku Prajapat, and Moumita Maiti, J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 2023, 50, 2

[url: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6471/acaffc ]

Analysis of mass-separated evaporation residues formed in 32S+70,68Zn fusion reactions: The special case of 97,95Ru,
Deepak Kumar, Moumita Maiti, Rinku Prajapat, Amit Chauhan, Rohan Biswas, J. Gehlot, S. Nath, R. Kumar, N. Madhavan, G. Naga Jyothi, Rudra N. Sahoo, Md. Moin. Shaikh, V. Srivastava, Phys. Rev. C 104, 014602 (2021).

[url: https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.104.014602 ]

Study of excitation functions and insights into the reaction mechanisms of 6Li fusion in Cu,
Rishabh Kumar, Moumita Maiti, Gayatri Sarkar, Malvika, Pavneet Kaur, Rinku Prajapat, T. N. Nag and S. Sodaye, Eur. Phys. Jour. A 57, 209 (2021).

[url: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epja/s10050-021-00520-w ]

Fission of 180, 182, 183Hg∗ and 178Pt∗ nuclei at intermediate excitation energies,
E. M. Kozulin, G. N. Knyazheva, I. M. Itkis, M. G. Itkis, Y. S. Mukhamejanov, A. A. Bogachev, K. V. Novikov, V. V. Kirakosyan, D. Kumar, T. Banerjee, M. Cheralu, M. Maiti, R. Prajapat, R. Kumar, G. Sarkar, W. H. Trzaska, A. N. Andreyev, I. M. Harca, A. Mitu, and E. Vardaci, Phys. Rev. C 105, 014607 (2022).

[url: https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.105.014607 ]

Fission of 182,183Hg nuclei at energies around the Coulomb barrier,
M. Cheralu, Y. S. Mukhamejanov, E. M. Kozulin, G. N. Knyazheva, I. M. Itkis, T. Banerjee, I. N. Diatlov, D. Kumar, N. I. Kozulina, K. Novikov, A. N. Pan, I. V. Pchelintsev, R. S. Tikhomirov, I. V. Vorobiev, M. Maiti, R. Prajapat, R. Kumar, G. Sarkar, W. H. Trzaska, P. P. Singh, R. N. Sahoo, E. Vardaci, A.Andreev, A. Mitu, I. Harca, Acta Phys. Pol. B Proc. Suppl. 14, 4 (2021).

[url: https://www.actaphys.uj.edu.pl/index_n.php?I=S&V=14&N=4 ]

Asymmetric and symmetric fission of excited nuclei of 180, 190Hg and 184, 192, 202Pb, formed in the reactions with 36Ar and 40, 48Ca ions,
A. A. Bogachev, E. M. Kozulin, G. N. Knyazheva, I. M. Itkis, M. G. Itkis, K. V. Novikov, T. Banerjee, I. N. Diatlov, M. Cheralu, V. V. Kirakosyan, D. Kumar, Y. S. Mukhamejanov, A. N. Pan, I. V. Pchelintsev, R. S. Tikhomirov, I. V. Vorobiev, M. Maiti, R. Prajapat, R. Kumar, G. Sarkar, W. H. Trzaska, A. N. Andreyev, I. M. Harca, E. Vardaci, Phys. Rev. C 104, 024623 (2021).

[url: https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.104.024623 ]

Study of Mass-Asymmetric Fission of 180,190Hg Formed in the 36Ar+144,154Sm Reactions,
D. Kumar, E. M. Kozulin, M. Cheralu, G. N. Knyazheva, I. M. Itkis, M. G. Itkis, K. V. Novikov, A. A. Bogachev, N. I. Kozulina, I. N. Diatlov, I. V. Pchelintsev, I. V. Vorobiev, T. Banerjee, Y. S. Mukhamejanov, A. N. Pan, V. V. Saiko, P. P. Singh, R. N. Sahoo, A. N. Andreyev, D. M. Filipescu, M. Maiti, R. Prajapat, and R. Kumar,

Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci.: Phys. 84, 1001 (2020).

[url: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3103/S1062873820080213 ]

Investigation on Competing Fission Modes in 178Pt* Produced by 36Ar+142Nd Reaction up to High Excitation Energies,
D. Kumar, E. M. Kozulin, G. N. Knyazheva, M. Maiti, I. M. Itkis, A. A. Bogacheva, K. V. Novikov, M. Cheralu, T. Banerjee, I. N. Diatlov, N. I. Kozulina, I. V. Pchelintsev, I. V. Vorobiev, A. N. Pan, R. Prajapat, R. Kumar, E. Vardaci, W. H. Trzaska, A. Andreyev, and I. M. Harca, Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci.: Phys. 85, 1479 (2021).

[url: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3103/S1062873821120194 ]

First Full Beta-Strength Measurement With Dtas Across N=126 at Fair Phase-0,
D. Rodriguez-Garcia, J. L.Tain, A. I. Morales, ……,R. Prajapat et al., EPJ Web of Conf. 290, 02006 (2023).

[url: https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/abs/2023/16/epjconf_eunpc2023_02006/epjconf_eunpc2023_02006.html]

Conferences/Symposia

1. Rinku Prajapat, Emma Haettner, D. Kostyleva, S. Purushothaman, C. Scheidenberger et al.,
Measurement of interaction and charge-changing cross-sections of carbon isotopes,
International Symposium Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Halo Nuclei (HALO-40), Beijing, China, October 12–18, 2025.

2. Rinku Prajapat, Emma Haettner, D. Kostyleva, S. Purushothaman, C. Scheidenberger et al.,
Study of interaction and charge-changing cross-sections of carbon isotopes,
DPG Spring Meeting, Cologne, Germany, March 10–14, 2025.

3. Rinku Prajapat, Emma Haettner, D. Kostyleva, S. Purushothaman et al.,
Investigation of matter and proton radii of carbon isotopes by measuring interaction and charge-changing cross-sections at GSI,
International Conference on Nuclear Physics and Applications (ICNPA-2024), New Delhi, India, October 21–25, 2024.

4. Rinku Prajapat, Emma Haettner, D. Kostyleva, S. Purushothaman et al.,
Measurements of interaction and charge-changing cross-sections of carbon isotopes (10,11,12C) at the FRS,
14th International Conference on Nucleus–Nucleus Collisions (NN2024), Whistler, BC, Canada, August 18–23, 2024.

5. Rinku Prajapat, Emma Haettner, D. Kostyleva, S. Purushothaman et al.,
Measurements of interaction cross-sections of carbon isotopes (10,11,12C) at the FRS,
DPG Spring Meeting, Giessen, Germany, March 11–15, 2024.

6. Rinku Prajapat, Moumita Maiti,
Influence of α-separation energy on incomplete fusion of 6,7Li in 89Y,
65th DAE Nuclear Physics Symposium, BARC, Mumbai, India, pp. 365–366, 2021.

7. Rinku Prajapat, Moumita Maiti,
Production of medically relevant 93mMo radionuclide through a light heavy-ion reaction,
15th International Conference on Modern Trends in Activation Analysis (MTAA-15), BARC, Mumbai, India, p. 30, 2019.

8. Rinku Prajapat, Amit Chauhan, Deepak Kumar, Moumita Maiti,
Investigation of pre-equilibrium strength in 7Li, 11B and 12C induced reactions,
36th Mazurian Lakes Conference on Physics, Piaski, Poland, p. 241, 2019.

9. Rinku Prajapat, Moumita Maiti,
Signature of incomplete fusion in the 7Li induced reaction on natZr at low energies,
36th Mazurian Lakes Conference on Physics, Piaski, Poland, p. 239, 2019.

10. Rinku Prajapat, Deepak Kumar, Kuldeep Kumar, Amit Chauhan, Moumita Maiti,
Production of 187Pt radionuclide from 11B-induced reaction on natTa,
DAE International Symposium on Nuclear Physics, BARC, Mumbai, India, pp. 522–523, 2018.

11. Rinku Kumar Prajapat, Moumita Maiti,
An analysis of the production of neutron-deficient platinum radionuclides,
4th International Conference on Application of Radiotracers and Energetic Beams in Sciences (ARCEBS-2018), Fort Raichak, Kolkata, India, pp. 153–154, 2018.

12. Rinku Prajapat, Moumita Maiti,
Estimate of pre-equilibrium emission over equilibrium in p+89Y reaction,
International Conference on Nuclear, Particle and Accelerator Physics (ICNPAP-2018), Ranchi, India, p. 81, 2018.

13. Moumita Maiti, Deepak Kumar, Rinku Prajapat,
Production of polonium isotopes in p-induced reaction on the LBE target up to 150 MeV,
ARCEBS-2018, Fort Raichak, Kolkata, India, pp. 163–164, 2018.

14. Rishabh Kumar, Rinku Prajapat, Gayatri Sarkar, Amit Chauhan, Moumita Maiti, T. Nag, S. Sodaye,
Production of 68Ga from the 7Li-induced reaction on Cu,
64th DAE BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, BARC, Mumbai, India, pp. 383–384, 2019.

15. D. Kumar, Rinku Prajapat, A. Chauhan, M. Maiti, S. R. Abhilash, D. Kabiraj, G. R. Umapathy, S. Ojha,
Fabrication of thin 68,70Zn target using vacuum evaporation technique,
DAE International Symposium on Nuclear Physics, BARC, Mumbai, India, pp. 1114–1115, 2018.

16. D. Kumar, E. M. Kozulin, G. N. Knyazheva, I. M. Itkis, A. A. Bogachev, et al., Rinku Prajapat,
Comparative study of neutron-deficient 178Pt, 180Hg, 182Hg nuclei exhibiting asymmetric fission,
LXX International Conference “Nucleus-2020”, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia, p. 269, 2020.

17. Rinku Prajapat, Moumita Maiti,
Study of complete-incomplete fusion mechanisms in 7Li+89Y reaction,
19th CNS International Summer School (CNSSS20), University of Tokyo, Japan, p. 46, 2020.

18. D. Kumar, E. M. Kozulin, M. Cheralu, G. N. Knyazheva, et al., Rinku Prajapat,
Investigation of different fission-like processes involved in 180,190Hg formed using 36Ar+144,154Sm reactions,
Centenary Celebration Conference on Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Reactions, Aligarh Muslim University, India, p. 90, 2020.

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