Interference between Direct and Indirect Modes in Two-Nucleon Transfer Reactions with Heavy Ions

Abstract
Direct and indirect transitions to the lowest 2+ collective states are shown to interfere constructively in the pickup reaction Sn122(O16, O18)Sn120 at 104 MeV, and destructively in the inverse stripping reaction Sn120(O18, O16)Sn122 at 99 MeV.