Effect of nuclear deformation on direct capture reactions

TL;DR

This paper investigates how nuclear deformation influences direct radiative capture reactions, emphasizing that accounting for deformation improves the accuracy of theoretical models for most non-spherical nuclei.

Contribution

It introduces the effect of nuclear deformation into the spherical potential model to better explain direct capture reactions.

Findings

Nuclear deformation significantly impacts direct capture processes.

Inclusion of deformation improves model accuracy for non-spherical nuclei.

Deformation effects should be considered in future reaction analyses.

Abstract

The direct radiative capture process is well described by the spherical potential model. In order for the model to explain direct captures more accurately, the effect of the nuclear deformation has been added and analyzed in this work, since most nucleuses are not spherical. The results imply that the nuclear deformation largely affects the direct capture and should be taken into account during discussing direct capture reactions.