Abstract
A heavy particle magnetic spectrograph has been used to study the energies and angular distributions of proton groups emitted from a sodium target bombarded with 8.60 MeV deuterons. New excited states in Na
24 have been observed at 4.74±0.04 MeV and 5.13±0.08 MeV. The angular distributions of some proton groups have been compared with curves calculated from deuteron stripping theories. While an s- or d- wave neutron capture is observed for the low lying levels, a p-wave is found to dominate the higher excited states.