B10(d, Li6)Li6Reaction at Deuteron Energies from 8 to 13.5 MeV

The breakup of ${\mathrm{C}}^{12}$ into two ${\mathrm{Li}}^6$ particles has been observed in the reaction ${\mathrm{B}}^{10}(d, {\mathrm{Li}}^6){\mathrm{Li}}^6$. A self-supporting foil of ${\mathrm{B}}^{10}$ was bombarded with deuterons from the Argonne tandem generator. The pairs of ${\mathrm{Li}}^6$ nuclei were detected by two silicon semiconductor counters placed at the appropriate pair of angles defined by the reaction kinetics. Angular distributions were measured for $20°<{\theta }_{\mathrm{c}.\mathrm{m}.\mathrm{}}<160\mathrm{}°$ and were found to be peaked at about 40° (and, by symmetry, at 140°). The reaction may be understood in terms of a direct process. A distorted-wave Born-approximation calculation gives a good fit to the data when reasonable values for the well parameters are assumed.