The 44Ca(d,α)42K Reaction at 4.0 MeV
The angular distributions from the 44Ca(d,α)42K reaction were measured at Ed = 4.0 MeV in a range of angles from 40° to 160°. Based on the observation of forward peaking of the angular distributions and diminished fluctuations at 4 MeV in the excitation function, an analysis was carried out utilizing the distorted wave Born approximation. For the five strongly excited levels below 1.3 MeV, satisfactory fits were obtained using optical model parameters from the literature. The results, which were consistent with the spin assignments from other experiments, revealed no gross inadequacies of a direct reaction analysis at this energy which are not present at higher energies. For three levels in42K, the range of spins was tentatively reduced. In the case of the 1.113 MeV level, no previous assignments had been made.