Reaction mechanism of the 16O + d reactions

Abstract

The reactions 16O(d,d)16O, 16O(d,p)17O, and 16O(d,n)17F have been studied in the deuteron energy range 4.00–6.00 MeV in order to determine to what extent current theories can satisfactorily describe these reactions. It was found that the theoretical curves from both the optical and DWBA models fit the experimental data significantly better when the deuteron optical-model potentials had been obtained using a spin–orbit potential in the analysis of the elastic scattering data. Spectroscopic factors obtained for the ground and first-excited states of 17O and 17F using the DWBA theory are in satisfactory agreement with theoretical predictions and with values obtained by previous workers. Small, but nonzero, spectroscopic factors have been obtained for the states at 3.058 and 3.846 MeV excitation in 17O using data measured in this work and in previous experiments. The sum of the calculated direct interaction and compound-nucleus cross sections is in good agreement with experimental data for all states studied, whether they were populated primarily by direct or compound-nucleus reactions. The calculated compound-nucleus lifetimes are also in agreement with values obtained from an analysis of the fluctuations in the yield curves.