Neutron hole states of 9395Mo

The (p,d) and (d,t) reactions on 94Mo and 96Mo have been used at bombarding energies of approx. 40 MeV to populate neutron hole states of 93Mo and 95Mo. Excitation energies and angular distributions were measured for levels up to approx. 5 MeV in excitation. A distorted-wave Born approximation analysis was used to make l assignments and to obtain spectroscopic factors. Three distinct groups of weakly excited levels, one corresponding to l = 4 and two corresponding to l = 1, were observed above 2.3 MeV excitation in both nuclei. A quasiparticle-core coupling model is used to predict the properties of 9395Mo nuclei, and fair agreement with the experiments is obtained