  The goal of this work is to establish on firm grounds a theory for deuteron
induced neutron capture reactions. This includes formulating elastic and
inelastic breakup in a consistent manner. We describe this process both in post
and prior form distorted wave Born approximation, and we apply our method to
the 53Nb(d,p)X at Ed =15 MeV and 25 MeV, obtaining a good description of the
data. We look at the various partial wave contributions, as well as elastic
versus inelastic contributions. We also connect our formulation with transfer
to neutron bound states.
