Deuteron-stripping angular distributions have been calculated for 14 light-target reactions ($A\le 48$) over a range of bombarding energies, using the distorted-wave Born approximation with diffuse-well optical-model nuclear potentials. A fair degree of agreement with experiment has been obtained, though in many cases the results, which depend strongly on the particular reaction considered, are inferior. In some of the latter instances the data are not well fitted; in others the agreement between elastic-scattering and stripping parameters, or between parameters for stripping leading to different residual levels of the same final nucleus, is poor. For reactions with $L_N=0\mathrm{}$ it appears that the angular distributions can be reasonably fitted in the neighborhood of the Coulomb barrier as the bombarding energy is raised only if the deuteron real potential depth is appreciably increased.

• Received 25 February 1963

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.131.304