A Comprehensive Analysis of Incomplete Fusion Reactions in 16O + 159Tb System

In the present work, three distinct and complementary experiments viz. (i) measurement of excitation functions, (ii) measurement of recoil range distributions, and (iii) spin distribution measurements using particle-gamma technique, have been carried out to understand the dynamics of complete fusion and incomplete fusion reactions at energies ≈ 4–7 MeV/nucleon. The analysis done indicates significant ICF contribution in ^16O + ^159Tb system at these energies. The three complimentary experiments confirm the observation of ICF and the relative contributions obtained are found to agree within 5%.