Origin ofjandQDependence in Heavy-Ion Transfer Reactions

Abstract

A semiclassical treatment of heavy-ion—induced reactions is used to analyze experimental results on the (${}_{}{}^{16}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{O}$, ${}_{}{}^{15}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{N}$) and (${}_{}{}^{14}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{N}$, ${}_{}{}^{13}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{C}$) reactions at 80 MeV and the (${}_{}{}^{12}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{C}$, ${}_{}{}^{11}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{B}$) reaction at 95 MeV, on a ${}_{}{}^{54}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{Fe}$ target. It is shown that kinematical conditions and angular momentum coupling are sufficient to explain the strong $j$ effect and $Q$ dependence observed in the selective population of the various states.