Abstract: | Bombarding targets of 106Cd,108Cd and110Cd with16O ions of 52.5–66.0 MeV neutron deficient barium, cesium and xenon isotopes were produced and have been studied using excitation functions and neutron-gamma, proton-gamma, alpha-gamma and gammagamma coincidence measurements. Partial level schemes for123Ba and121Ba were proposed. A number of gamma transitions was assigned to the different product nuclei. The measured particle emission probabilities from the compound nuclei are compared with different evaporation models. The models mostly underestimate neutron emission and often overestimate the emission of alpha particles. |