The (t,{sup 3}He) reaction at 43 MeV/nucleon on {sup 48}Ca and {sup 58}Ni: Results and microscopic interpretation

We have used the 43 MeV/nucleon primary tritium beam of the AGOR facility with an intensity of 4x10{sup 7} pps and the BBS experimental setup to study the (t,{sup 3}He) reaction between 0 deg. and 5 deg. lab angles on {sup 12}C, {sup 48}Ca, and {sup 58}Ni targets. The standard ray-tracing procedure has allowed us to obtain excitation-energy spectra up to 30 MeV in six angular bins for each residual nucleus, with an average energy resolution of 350 keV. The reaction mechanism has been described in distorted-waves Born approximation (DWBA) using the DWBA98 code. In this approximation, the form factor is treated as a folding of an effective projectile-nucleon interaction with a transition density. The effective projectile-nucleon interaction has been adjusted to reproduce the 0 deg. cross section of the 1{sup +} ground state of {sup 12}B populated in the {sup 12}C(t,{sup 3}He) reaction. We have employed random-phase approximation (RPA) wave functions of excited states to construct the form factor instead of the normal modes wave functions used earlier. This new DWBA+RPA analysis is used to compare calculated and experimental cross sections directly and to discuss the giant resonance excitations in {sup 48}K and {sup 58}Co nuclei.