ON THE RESONANT BEHAVIOR OF THE O-16 PLUS N-15 REACTION

The O-16 + N-15 reaction products have been studied by the gamma-ray detection method in the CM energy range 15.5 to 36. 1 Me V and by the kinematical coincidence method at energies ranging from E(CM) = 20.6 to 33.5 MeV. The gamma-ray yield excitation function of the O-16 3- inelastic channel shows the existence of resonant structures. Two structures with approximately 1.6 MeV width are observed in the large angle elastic scattering excitation function, they are correlated with the resonances seen in the inelastic channel. Angular momentum assignments were made from the elastic backward angular distributions.