Deuteron Elastic Scattering from He3 and H3

The elastic scattering of deuterons from He3 and H3 has been studied for bombarding energies up to 11 MeV. The excitation curves obtained show a broad resonance in the scattering cross section corresponding to an excitation energy of 20±0.5 MeV in both He5 and Li5. These data, together with H3(d, n)He4 and He3(d, p)He4 data from other sources, tend to indicate that D waves are responsible for the anomaly