Decay of the complete fusion nucleus,151Eu

Excitation functions have been measured for the¹³³Cs(¹³O, 3–6n)^145–148Eu reactions at incident energies from 75 to 125 MeV and compared to those previously reported for the¹³⁹La(¹²C, 3–6n) reaction system with the same complete fusion nucleus,¹⁵¹Eu. The semiclassical Diamond-Stephens approach to the treatment of angular momentum in evaporative processes is extended and a method for extraction of the moment of inertia, the critical value of angular momentum for fusion, and the yrast line for¹⁵¹Eu is presented. The model is then used to predict the excitation functions and the results are compared to experiment.