Gamow-Teller Matrix Elements from 0°(<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mi> </mml:mi><mml:mi>n</mml:mi></mml:math>) Cross Sections

After simple corrections for distortion effects, 120-MeV, 0\ifmmode^\circ\else\textdegree\fi{} ($p, n$) cross sections are found to be proportional to the squares of the corresponding Fermi and Gamow-Teller matrix elements extracted from $\ensuremath{\beta}$-decay measurements. It is suggested that this proportionality can be used to extract Gamow-Teller matrix elements for transitions inaccessible to $\ensuremath{\beta}$ decay.