Investigation of states in17F by the15N(3He,n)17F reaction

The absolute differential cross sections for several levels in the¹⁵N(³He,n)¹⁷F reaction were measured at laboratory scattering angles from 0 to 140 degrees using neutron time-of-flight techniques. Angular distributions were obtained at effective helion bombarding energies of 3.8 and 4.8 MeV. A new state was identified at 5.18 ±0.02 MeV excitation energy which is probably the analogue of the 5.217 MeV state in¹⁷O. Spectroscopic factors were obtained for the low-lying states using distorted wave method calculations.