Elastic scattering angular distribution for weakly bound nucleus 6Li on
the deformed rare earth 159Tb target nucleus has been measured at energies
around the Coulomb barrier. The elastic scattering cross sections for this
reaction consist of inelastic contributions from low lying excited states of
159Tb. The pure elastic cross-sections have been extracted from the
admixture of elastic and inelastic data. The optical model potential parameters
for the system have been obtained from the extracted pure elastic scattering
cross sections. Coupled channel calculations have been performed with this set
of potential parameters, to compare the theoretical and experimental inelastic
scattering cross sections. The work has been extended to obtain the
spectroscopic factor for 158Tb+n configuration from the experimental
1n-pickup data