in which the pion absorption is certainly not negligible. Finally the effect of P D in our calculation and in FR should be further investigated.We should like to express our thanks to Professor A. W. Thomas for giving helpful information about his results and for encouraging correspondence. We are also very grateful to Professor Y. Avishai for stimulating discussions and for his critical reading of the manuscript. i A. W. Thomas, Nucl. Phys. A258, 417 (1976). 2 R. M. Woloshyn, E. J. Moniz, and R. Aaron, Phys. Rev. C 13, 286 (1976); V. B. Mandelzweig, H. Garcila-The (d,a) reaction involves the pickup of two nucleons (sometimes considered as a deuteron cluster) from a nucleus. It is useful in spectroscopic studies of the residual nuclei, which are frequently odd-odd, and for studying the neutronproton correlations in the ground state of the target nucleus. The analysis of these reactions is considerably more complicated than single-nucleon transfer reactions, since most final states can be populated by several orbital angular momentum transfers (L). Each L and J value transferred, where J is the total angular momentum of the pair, can also involve a combination of two-particle configurations. Since differential cross sections are often inadequate to unravel the relative contributions of different angular momenta to the (d,a) reaction, it is important to investigate the extent to which vector-analyzing-power (VAP) measurements using polarized beams can improve understanding of the reaction and the final states involved. Several VAP measurements for the (d,a) reaction have been reported recently. 1 " 3 These measurements, however, do not comprise as complete a study of a zo, and J. M. Eisenberg, Nucl. It is by now well-established that VAP measurements for single-nucleon pickup and transfer reactions distinguish between; =1 +| and 3=1-k transfers 4 (where j and I are total and orbital angular momenta of the transferred nucleon). The present Letter shows that analogous effects exist in VAP distributions for a two-nucleon transfer reaction depending on the J and L of the transferred pair of nucleons. For a spin-zero target nucleus, the L and J transferred from the nucleus determine the spin and parity of the final nuclear state and for each L involved in populating this state, J may equal either L+l, L, or 11/ -II. Earlier theoretical work 5 stated that, in the absence of spin-dependent distortions of the incoming and outgoing waves and for a unique L and J, the vector analyzing powers will be proportional to -L, 1, andl/+l, respectively, for the above J values.In order to consider cases involving only one important angular-momentum component to the reaction, measurements were made with spin-The angular distribution patterns of vector analyzing powers for (d 9 a) reactions on s~d shell nuclei at energies near 16.5 MeV depend distinctly on the orbital angular momentum L and total angular momentum J transferred. Examples of L -0, L = 2, and L = 4 transfers have been obtained for 28 Si, 32 S, and 40 Ca targets, and these ...