High-resolution investigation of the Sb-121(p,t)Sb-119 reaction and quasiparticle-phonon model description

The Sb-121(p,t)Sb-119 reaction has been measured in a high-resolution experiment at an incident energy of 21 MeV. Accurate measurement of the (p,t) reaction angular distributions for the transitions to the levels of Sb-119 allows us to determine energies of 59 levels, 23 of which have been identified for the first time, and to assign the angular momentum transfer values and a well-defined range for the J values. DWBA analysis has been performed in a finite-range approximation, assuming a dineutron cluster pickup mechanism, by using conventional Woods-Saxon potentials for the entrance proton and exit triton channel. The present (p,t) data have been supplemented by microscopic calculations in the framework of the quasiparticle-phonon model, giving a reasonably good description of the experimental fragmentation of the integrated cross sections and the absence of (p,t) strength above 2.9 MeV.