“…Figure 22 illustrates the relevance and appropriateness of Phillip's (1964) treatment of the deuteron disintegration reaction, and the usefulness of the empirical (model-independent) determination of (g, 12. A new value was obtained by Slobodrian et al (1968) for a, a, = -16.7+::: fm (3.20) from the spectra of Voitovetskii et al (1964Voitovetskii et al ( , 1965, in excellent agreement with theoretical expectations and with other experimental values. Figure 23 shows the corresponding spectra of reaction (3.2) and it illustrates also the inadequacy of the Migdal-Watson approach to such spectra.…”