Statistical properties of fusion reactions involving deformed nuclei

The statistical properties of the ¹⁶⁵Ho(α,2nγ) ¹⁶⁷Tm reaction were investigated. It was found that both the slopes of the excitation functions and the side-feeding intensities are independent of the K quantum number. Regular behaviour of these quantities as a function of the spin I and of the excitation energies of the observed levels provide a means for spin assignments, just as for spherical nuclei. The analysis, in the present case, however, is much more involved.