Study of the 17O(α, d)19F reaction

At a bombarding energy of 47.5 MeV, the ¹⁷O(α, d)¹⁹F reaction is found to populate strongly only those positive-parity states that are known to consist predominantly of (sd)³ configurations. Distorted-wave calculations based on transfer amplitudes computed from shell-model wave functions provide good agreement to the measured angular distributions — in both shape and magnitude.