Gamow-Teller transition probabilities are extracted for eight nuclei with masses between 3 = 13 and 39 from medium-energy (p, n) reactions via the distorted-wave impulse approximation, and compared with experimental P-decay and with free-nucleon transition probabilities. These comparisons indicate strongly that the renormalization of the Gamow-Teller operator needed for (p, n) reactions on finite nuclei is different from that needed for P decay.
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