Three-body direct nuclear reactions: Nonlocal optical potential

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel approach to calculating three-body direct nuclear reactions using nonlocal optical potentials within Faddeev equations, revealing significant nonlocality effects that enhance experimental data descriptions.

Contribution

First implementation of three-body nuclear reaction calculations with nonlocal optical potentials using Faddeev equations, highlighting the importance of nonlocality effects.

Findings

Nonlocality significantly affects transfer reaction calculations.

Improved agreement with experimental data for d+16O -> p+17O.

Demonstrates the necessity of including nonlocal potentials in reaction models.

Abstract

The calculations of three-body direct nuclear reactions with nonlocal optical potentials are performed for the first time using the framework of Faddeev-type scattering equations. Important nonlocality effect is found for transfer reactions like d+16O -> p + 17O often improving the description of the experimental data.