Simultaneous measurement of the (d,d) and (d,p) resonant reactions using thick deuterated polyethylene targets

Abstract

The thick target technique is extended here to study reactions induced by deuterons. Deuterated target production and characterization is reviewed in detail. The experimental setup used in a previous work, to study proton induced resonances, is complemented here with an additional thin transmission detector for standard particle identification with the E-$\Delta $E technique. Through the measurement of the excitation functions of the $^{2}$H($^{12}$C,d) and $^{2}$H($^{12}$C,p) reactions, resonant states in $^{14}$N are studied. Using known energies and widths for resonances in the relevant energy range, good fits were obtained with R-matrix calculations.