Coupled-channels effects occurring in fusion ${(}^{23}$Na→${+\mathrm{}}^{48}$Ti) and elastic scattering ${(}^7$Li→${+\mathrm{}}^{120}$Sn) of aligned deformed heavy ions are treated on the same footing in a semiquantal decoupling approximation which holds for large angular momenta. Numerical results obtained are compared to those of the exact quantum mechanical formalism by invoking recent experimental data.

• Received 11 August 1986

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.35.1324