Experimental survey of the (d-vector,t) reaction at Ed = 200 MeV

Differential cross sections, vector and tensor analyzing powers of the (d,t) reaction on 120Sn, 116Sn, 90Zr, 58Ni, 16O and 12C have been measured at 200 MeV bombarding energy. Deuteron elastic scattering measurements have been performed on 116Sn and 208Pb at the same energy. These data have been analyzed together with previous ones on 58Ni and16O to get best fit optical parameters describing deuteron elastic scattering. The angular distributions are found to strongly depend on the number of nodes in the neutron form factor and on the coupling of spin and angular momentum j-=l-1/2 versus j+=l+1/2. Exact finite range calculations including S and D components have been performed, using two sets of deuteron parameters together with a deep triton potential. Both analyses reproduce rather well the differential cross sections and currently adopted spectroscopic factors. (author). 40 refs., 11 figs., 2 tabs