Measurement of the low-lying excitations in $^{96}$Mo by the $^{95}$Mo (d,p) reaction
ORAL
Abstract
The $^{95}$Mo(d,p) reaction was studied at the 88-Inch Cyclotron at Texas A\&M University with a 13-MeV (6.5 MeV/nucleon) deuteron beam and a self-supporting foil of 0.96~mg/cm$^{2}$ $^{95}$Mo target. The reaction protons were measured at forward angles of 30-60$^{\circ}$ with the STARS (Silicon Telescope Array for Reaction Studies) array of three segmented Micron S2 sillicon detectors. This is the first study of the $^{95}$Mo(d,p) reaction and is part of the effort to validate the (d,p$\gamma$) reaction as a surrogate for neutron capture. Preliminary angular distribution results and a comparison with distorted wave calculations will be presented.
*This work is supported in part by JSPS Research Fellowship and the U.S. Department of Energy (DE-AC52-07NA27344 (LLNL), DE-FG52-08NA28552 (Rutgers, ORAU), DE-FG02-05ER41379 and DE-FG52-06NA26206 (Richmond)) and National Science Foundation
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