¹5C(d,p)¹6C reaction and exotic behavior in ¹6C.

We have studied the ¹5C(d,p)¹6C reaction in inverse kinematics using the Helical Orbit Spectrometer at Argonne National Laboratory. Prior studies of electromagnetic-transition rates in ¹6C suggested an exotic decoupling of the valence neutrons from the core in that nucleus. Neutron-adding spectroscopic factors give a different probe of the wave functions of the relevant states in ¹6C. Shell-model calculations reproduce both the present transfer data and the previously measured transition rates, suggesting that ¹6C may be described without invoking very exotic phenomena.