Nucleon Transfer with Oxygen Ions Below and Near the Coulomb Barrier

Abstract
Excitation functions have been measured at θlab=170 for the reactions Ce140(O16, N15)Pr141 (Elab=56.0 to 63.0 MeV), Sr88(O16, N15)Y89 (42.5 to 50.0 MeV), and Ce140(O18, O17)Ce141 (56.0 to 61.0 MeV) proceeding to low excited states. Analysis has been made using the sub-Coulomb distorted-wave Born-approximation theory of Buttle and Goldfarb with inclusion of Coulomb correction terms in the form factor and the Buttle-Goldfarb approximation for recoil corrections. Good fits are obtained to the excitation functions at the lower energies. Normalization at these energies determines an essentially invariant quantity, namely the joint probability for the transferred nucleon being at radius R1 with respect to the first core nucleus and radius R2 with respect to the second, where R1α[A113(A113+A213)] and