Differential Cross Sections for the Reaction B11(d, p)B12 for ED=1−2.6 MeV

Abstract

The angular distributions of the protons from the nuclear reaction ${\mathrm{B}}^{11}(d, p){\mathrm{B}}^{12}$ leading to the ground state of the residual nucleus were measured at bombarding energies of 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, and 2.6 MeV. Self-supporting boron films were used as targets, and the outgoing particles were detected with surface-barrier solid-state detectors. Protons from the reaction ${\mathrm{O}}^{16}(d, p){\mathrm{O}}^{17}$ leading to the first excited state of ${\mathrm{O}}^{17}$ are practically indistinguishable from the protons under investigation, and were subtracted from the data during the analysis. The resulting absolute differential cross sections were fitted using the deuteron-heavy-particle stripping theory.