The effect of recoil in single-nucleon-transfer heavy-ion reactions is found to be twofold: Extra transfer angular momenta are introduced and the radial integrals are changed. Comparison of an exact recoil distorted-wave Born-approximation program with experimental data from heavy-ion reactions induced on ${}_{}{}^{11}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{B}$ and ${}_{}{}^{12}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{C}$ gives excellent quantitative agreement. Recoil effects on other targets and energies are considered.

• Received 5 March 1973

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.8.951