Four-nucleon pickup reaction on 12 ⩽ A ⩽ 94 nuclei

Abstract

The differential cross sections for the (d, 6Li) reaction on targets of 12C, 16O, 24Mg, 40Ca, 58Ni and 94Mo have been measured at E d = 54.2 MeV. The measured angular distributions have been analyzed by finite-range DWBA calculations, and spectroscopic factors for an α-cluster transfer have been extracted. In the DWBA analysis using an optical model with a phenomenological Woods-Saxon potential, the spin-orbit part of the deuteron optical potential played a significant role in reproducing the measured angular distributions but the spin-orbit part of the 6Li optical potential had a minor effect. Relative spectroscopic factors extracted from the present data were compared with theoretical predictions together with the results from the (p, pα) reaction. The relative spectroscopic factors for 1p-shell nuclei were in quantitative agreement with theoretical predictions. However, there were certain discrepancies between the spectroscopic factors extracted from the (d, 6Li) reaction and those from the (p, pα) reaction, and the discrepancies increased with target mass number.