Rodriguez, M. D.Brown, M. L.Dasgupta, M.Hinde, D. J.2025-12-312025-12-310094-243XORCID:/0000-0002-4595-0742/work/162291083https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733798357SOLITAIRE is a powerful tool to study nuclear fusion, having a very large angular acceptance and good rejection of beam particles. This report shows how this device, combined with a high quality ray-tracing code, can give information about both the evaporation residue angular distribution and cross section from a single measurement. Results are shown for 32S+89Y and 58Ni+58,60,64Ni fusion reactions.6enEvaporation residue angular distributionFusion product separatorPosition-sensitive detector200910.1063/1.310886065349153695