Determination of the astrophysical ¹⁴C(n, g)¹⁵C reaction rate by means of the ANC, M. McCleskey,  Cyclotron Institute, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas USA − A new method to determine spectroscopic factors (SFs) that utilizes asymptotic normalization coefficients (ANCs) has been tested at Texas A&M, using ¹⁵C as a test case.  The method would use the ANC to fix the external contribution to a non-peripheral reaction which would otherwise be free to vary to unphysical values in a traditional approach. The investigation consisted of two parts.  First, the ANC for the ¹⁴C+n configuration in ¹⁵C was determined from the heavy ion neutron transfer reaction ¹³C(¹⁴C,¹⁵C)¹²C and the inverse kinematics reaction d(¹⁴C,p)¹⁵C. Both of these reactions were measured at sufficiently low energy to be safely peripheral.  Next, a non-peripheral reaction ¹⁴C(d,p)¹⁵C was measured with an incident deuteron energy of 60 MeV, and this reaction was used along with the previously determined ANC to attempt to find the SF.  The ANC was also used to calculate the astrophysical neutron direct capture rate for ¹⁴C(n,g)¹⁵C, which was compared with recent direct experimental results.