O16-Induced Transfer Reactions onfp-Shell Target Nuclei. I. The (O16,N15) One-Proton Transfer Reaction

Abstract
The (O16, N15) one-proton transfer reaction is investigated for fp-shell targets ranging from Ca40 to Zn70, at incident energies E(O16)=42.0,48.0, and 56.0 MeV. Angular distributions for the prominent transitions are presented. The results are discussed in a semiclassical model and are analyzed by finite-range distorted-wave Born-approximation (DWBA) calculations. With two sets of optical-model parameters, fixed for the whole region of nuclei, the extracted relative strengths of the transitions are consistent with those known from (He3,d) reactions. The absolute strengths are found to be sensitive to the specific choice of the parameters used in the DWBA. A reexamination of the data that had been interpreted as indications of two-step processes in the (O16, N15) reaction to final states in V51 leads to the conclusion that there is no evidence for such processes in this case at the incident energy employed.