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Microscopic calculation of the 3He(alpha,gamma)7Be and 3H(alpha,gamma)7Li capture cross sections using realistic interactions

Nuclear Theory 2011-02-02 v2 Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

The radiative capture cross sections for the 3He(alpha,gamma)7Be and 3H(alpha,gamma)7Li reactions are calculated in the fully microscopic fermionic molecular dynamics approach using a realistic effective interaction that reproduces the nucleon-nucleon scattering data. At large distances bound and scattering states are described by antisymmetrized products of 4He and 3He/3H ground states. At short distances the many-body Hilbert space is extended with additional many-body wave functions needed to represent polarized clusters and shell-model-like configurations. Properties of the bound states are described well, as are the scattering phase shifts. The calculated S factor for the 3He(alpha,gamma)7Be reaction agrees very well with recent experimental data both in absolute normalization and energy dependence. In case of the 3H(alpha,gamma)7Li reaction the calculated S factor is larger than available experimental data by about 15%.

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@article{arxiv.1011.2869,
  title  = {Microscopic calculation of the 3He(alpha,gamma)7Be and 3H(alpha,gamma)7Li capture cross sections using realistic interactions},
  author = {Thomas Neff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.2869},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

4 pages, 5 figures, published version