A study of the (τ,α) reaction on ⁵⁶Fe

The ⁵⁶Fe( tau , alpha ) reaction has been studied at E_tau =18 MeV using the tandem Van de Graaff accelerator and the multichannel magnetic spectrograph of the Nuclear Physics Laboratory, Oxford. Thirty seven levels have been observed up to E_x approximately=9 MeV and the angular distributions are measured for all the levels; the data have been analysed using the DWBA theory of direct pick-up reactions and the spectroscopic factors are extracted for various levels.