Piyadasa, R.A.D.Kawai, M.Munasinghe, J.2015-05-112015-05-112006Piyadasa, R.A.D., Kawai, M. and Munasinghe, J., 2006. Anomalous Absorption of Deuteron Partial Waves by Nuclear Optical Potential, Proceedings of the Annual Research Symposium 2006, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, pp 78.http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/7362M.Kawai and Y. Iseri (2), (3) found an interesting phenomenon in nuclear physics, motivated by the work of (1), in case of nucleon-nucleus elastic scattering. In the following this phenomenon is discussed in case of neutron (n)-nucleus (A) elastic scattering. In elastic scattering of neutron on (A), the elastic S – matrix element for a particular combination of j l E A cm , , , becomes very small (almost zero), and they called this phenomenon anomalous absorption of neutron partial waves by nuclear optical potential, where j is the total angular momentum, l is the angular momentum, cm E the centre of mass energy and A the mass of the nucleus. The striking feature of this phenomenon is systematic in various parameter ( f ,l, E , A) cm planes. Among them, systematic in ⎟⎠ ⎞ ⎜⎝ ⎛ 3 1 , A k l plane is actually remarkable, which consists of straight lines. All straight lines correspond to a definite node of wave functions associated with A k E l j cm , , , . It is quite interesting to examine whether this phenomenon occurs in case of composite projectiles such as d , He , etc. Now, it has been shown (4) that this phenomenon is universal. The main purpose of this paper is to report results of the case d − A after being rescrutinized by us. It is striking that the systematic in ⎟ ⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜ ⎜ ⎝ ⎛ + + + 3 1 2 , ( 1) A k η η l l plane is remarkably clearer than the case of neutron. Here, k η + η 2 + l (l +1) , the closest approach is physically meaningful in case of the presence of the Coulomb potential.enArticle