Role of virtual break-up of projectile in astrophysical fusion reactions

Details Role of virtual break-up of projectile in astrophysical fusion reactions Role of virtual break-up of projectile in astrophysical fusion reactions

2003-07-09

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0307030v1

Phys.Rev. C68 (2003) 048801

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

9 pages, 2 eps figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.68.048801

We study the effect of virtual Coulomb break-up, commonly known as the dipole polarizability, of the deuteron projectile on the astrophysical fusion reaction 3He(d,p)4He. We use the adiabatic approximation to estimate the potential shift due to the E1 transition to the continuum states in the deuteron, and compute the barrier penetrability in the WKB approximation. We find that the enhancement of the penetrability due to the deuteron break-up is too small to resolve the longstanding puzzle observed in laboratory measurements that the electron screening effect is surprisingly larger than theoretical prediction based on an atomic physics model. The effect of the 3He break-up in the 3He(d,p)4He reaction, as well as the 7Li break-up in the 7Li(p,alpha)4He reaction is also discussed.

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