Investigation of the transfer reactions induced by 16O in 27Al and 28Si at Elab = 240 MeV

In this contribution, we present first experimental results for the deuteron pickup transfer in the 16O+28Si system at Elab. = 240 MeV. This reaction populates states in the 26Al target-like nucleus. In the same experimental campaign we have also measured the one-proton transfer 28Si(16O, 17F)27Al and one-neutron transfer 27Al(16O, 17O)26Al at the same beam energy. Comparison between the energy spectrum of these transfer reactions indicate that: i) the one-proton and one-neutron transfers favor the population of the low-lying states; ii) deuteron transfer to the ground state in 26Al is highly suppressed; iii) the cross-sections for deuteron transfer that populates low-lying states in 26Al are roughly 3 times less than the one-neutron transfer.