Prevalence of Direct-Reaction Mechanism in a Deeply Inelastic Reaction,Au197(F19,B12)

Abstract
Continuum cross sections and spin polarizations of B12 produced in the reaction Au197(F19, B12) induced by 186-MeV F19 were measured. The observed data were reproduced very well in terms of a distorted-wave Born-approximation theory, indicating that this reaction transferring as many as seven nucleons proceeds as a direct process.