Single-particle strength from nucleon transfer in oxygen isotopes: Sensitivity to model parameters

In the analysis of transfer reaction data to extract nuclear structure information the choice of input parameters to the reaction model such as distorting potentials and overlap functions has a significant impact. In this paper we consider a set of data for the ($d,t$) and (d,³He) reactions on 14,16,18O as a well-delimited subject for a study of the sensitivity of such analyses to different choices of distorting potentials and overlap functions with particular reference to a previous investigation of the variation of valence nucleon correlations as a function of the difference in nucleon separation energy ΔS=|Sₚ-Sₙ| [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 122503 (2013)].