The ground state neutron spectroscopic factors for 80 nuclei ranging in $Z$ from 3 to 24 have been extracted by analyzing the past measurements of the angular distributions from ($d,p$) and ($p,d$) reactions. We demonstrate an approach that provides systematic and consistent values with minimum assumptions. For the 61 nuclei that have been described by large-basis shell-model calculations, most experimental spectroscopic factors are reproduced to within 20%.

• Received 23 May 2005

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.222501