Investigation of the ^{48}Ca + ^{249–252}Cf reactions synthesizing isotopes of the superheavy element 118

The study of the 48Ca+249−252Cf reactions in a wide energy interval around the external barrier has been achieved with the aim of investigating the dynamical effects of the entrance channel via the 48Ca induced reactions on the 249–252Cf targets and to analyze the influence of odd and even neutron composition in target on the capture, quasifission, and fusion cross sections. Moreover, we also present the results of the individual evaporation residue excitation functions obtained from the de-excitation cascade of the various even-odd and even-even 297–300118 superheavy compound nuclei reached in the studied reactions, and we compare our results of the 294118 evaporation residue yields obtained in the synthesis process of the 48Ca+249,250Cf reactions with the experimental data obtained in the 48Ca+249Cf experiment carried out at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions of Dubna.