The yield curves of the (d, p) and (d, a) reactions on 3lp nucleus are measured in 10 keV steps from 2.000 up to 2.500 MeV deuteron energy. The analysis of the measured' cross-section fluctuations is car¡ out in terms of the EmCSON theory of statistieal fluetuations. The average coherence width F obtained amounts to 20 -Ÿ 5 keV for the 33S compound nucleus at ah energy of excitation of 17.396 MeV, yielding a life time ~ = 3.0 x 10-2~ sec. The absence of correlation between the different emitted groups and channels of decay of the 33S compound nucleus is confirrned. Probability distribution of the cross section around their average is found to obey a X2-distribution with 2N degrees of freedom (with N the effective channel number).
I. lntroduetionThe (d, p) and (d, ~) reactions on 31p targets were studied by many authors [1--4], in the deuteron energy range from about 1.0 up to 4.0 Meu where the angular distributions of the emitted protons and alpha groups were measured, in an attempt to investigate the reaction mechanisms,especially that of the statistical theory. In the deuteron energy range from 7.0 up to 12.0 MeV, the (d, ~) reaction on 31p was investigated [5], and the results were analyzed in terms of the ERicsoN theory of statistical fluctuation [6].In the higher energy ranges, these reactions were investigated and analyzed by applying the DWBA theory of direct reactions [7,8].In the present work, the excitation functions of the (d, p) and (d, ~) reactions on 31p targets are measured in the deuteron energy range from 2.0 up to 2.5 MeV in order to investigate the compound nucleus contribution to the reaction mechanism. The results ate analyzed by applying the ERIcSOr~ theory of the statistical fluctuations [6].