Tensor polarization of 12C[2+1] in the 16O(13C,12C)17O reaction at 50MeV
N. Ikeda1 - F. Nakamura1 - K. Mizuuchi1 - T. Sugimitsu1 - S. Teruyama1 - T. Okamoto1 - H. Fujita2 - S. Morinobu1
1 Department of Physics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan
2 Daiichi College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Fukuoka 815-8511, Japan
Received: 2 August 1999 / Revised version: 3 February 2000 Communicated by K. Nakai
Abstract
The 16O(13C,12C)17O reaction at 50MeV has been
investigated using the kinematical coincidence method.
Polarization tensors t20 and t40 of 12C[2+1] for
the quantization axis taken along the direction of propagation have
been measured by analyzing the energy spectrum of 12C[2+1],
modulated by the effect of 
ray emission.
The deduced t40 values significantly deviate from zero,
contrary to the prediction of the distorted-wave Born
approximation theory based on one-step p shell neutron stripping
without spin-dependent interactions.
The phenomenological spin-orbit interaction necessary to reproduce
the magnitude of measured t40 is found to be much larger than
the folding model prediction.
It is shown that the experimental polarization tensors as well as
the cross sections can be reproduced by introducing multi-step
processes involving excitations in 12C and 13C without
introducing spin-dependent interactions.
PACS
25.70.Hi Transfer reactions -
24.70.+s Polarization phenomena in reactions -
24.10.Eq Coupled-channel and distorted-wave models
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