Barea J, Bijker R, Frank A
Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, AP 70-543, México Distrito Federal 04510, México.
Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Apr 22;94(15):152501. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.152501. Epub 2005 Apr 21.
The spectroscopic strengths of two-nucleon transfer reactions constitute a stringent test for two-nucleon correlations in the nuclear wave functions. A set of closed analytic expressions for ratios of spectroscopic factors is derived in the framework of nuclear supersymmetry. These ratios are parameter independent and provide a direct test of the wave functions. A comparison between the recently measured 198Hg(d-->,alpha)196Au reaction and the predictions from the nuclear quartet supersymmetry lends further support to the validity of supersymmetry in nuclear physics.