The angular distributions of the cross sections of reactions to levels up to ${\mathit{E}}_{\mathit{X}}$=11 MeV in ${}_{}{}^{44}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{Ti}$ were measured for the reaction ${}_{}{}^{40}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{Ca}$${(}^6$Li,d) at E=37 MeV. These angular distributions for the unbound states, particularly the well populated 7.67(${10}^{+}$), 8.04(${12}^{+}$), 8.54, 8.96, 9.58, and 10.86 MeV states, were analyzed together with the data at E=50 MeV using α-particle wave functions calculated at the resonance energies using the squared Woods-Saxon potentials. The strongly excited state at ${\mathit{E}}_{\mathit{X}}$=10.86 MeV, whose spin parity was not identified from the data at 50 MeV, was found to be a candidate for the bandhead state of the higher nodal ${\mathit{K}}^{\mathrm{\pi }}$=$0^{+}$ band with principal quantum number N=14. © 1996 The American Physical Society.

• Received 19 September 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.53.131