https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06191-6
Regular Article
Formation and decay dynamics of 
Tb
compound nucleus formed in 
Li+
Sm reaction
1
Department of Physics, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Surat, 395007, Gujarat, India
2
Department of Physics and Materials Science, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, 147004, Patiala, Punjab, India
Received:
16
December
2024
Accepted:
5
March
2025
Published online:
1
April
2025
In the present analysis, the formation and the decay of Tb compound nucleus formed via Li +Sm reaction is studied. The energy density functional theory based on the Skyrme effective interaction is used to calculate the nuclear potential. Within the frameworks of Wong and 
-summed Wong formula, the fusion process is examined and for the decay, the dynamical cluster decay model is used. The complete fusion cross-section shows decent agreement with experimental data with -summed Wong formula which otherwise indicate 
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suppression at higher incident energies with Wong formula. The decay part of lanthanide compound nucleus Tb is investigated using the concept of nuclear surface polarization effects (SPE) in which the complete fusion (CF) and incomplete fusion (ICF) dynamics is explored in view of fragmentation potential, preformation probability and penetrability of decaying fragments. The SPE is also tested on neck-length and barrier modification parameters. Along with this, the evaporation cross-sections in aforementioned decay processes are calculated using angle dependent and angle independent diffuseness parameter. Our results indicate that the SPE significantly influence the excitation functions and related dynamics of lanthanide compound nucleus as the experimentally reported CF and ICF cross-section for Tb system are found to be nicely fitted when angle dependent diffuseness is incorporated in the nuclear potential.
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