This study investigates the effects of four nuclear mass models on the calculations for reaction cross-sections: Myers--Swiatecki--Lysekil; Myers liquid droplet; Groote--Hilf--Takahashi; and Seeger models. We calculate cross-sectional values for the decay of the compound nucleus, 137Pr* from the reaction: 37Cl on 100Mo, using all possible sequences for neutron, proton, and \alpha -particle emission obtained with the Hauser--Feshbach formula. We present mass-distributions for Pr, Ce, and La nuclei in the {A}= 128--134 range at beam energies of 130--180 MeV and also include calculations for the case of dual-targets. The addition of the Wigner term to three of the models is expressed in terms of a linear, empirical function relating the atomic mass to the reaction cross sections.
PACS numbers: 25.70.--z, 25.60.Dz, 27.60.+j
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