Study of the neutron and proton capture reactions 10,11b(n, g), 11b(p, g), 14c(p, g), and 15n(p, g) at thermal and astrophysical energies

TL;DR

This paper models neutron and proton capture reactions on boron, carbon, and nitrogen isotopes at astrophysical energies, successfully describing experimental data and resonance behaviors using the modified potential cluster model.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive MPCM approach with forbidden states and Young tableaux classification to accurately describe capture cross sections and S-factors for multiple reactions at astrophysical energies.

Findings

Successful description of experimental cross sections for 10B(n, g) and 11B(n, g) reactions.

Accurate modeling of proton capture on 11B, 14C, and 15N at astrophysical energies.

Explanation of the S-factor behavior for p15N reactions with resonance considerations.

Abstract

We have studied the neutron-capture reactions 10,11B(n, g) and the role of the 11B(n, g) reaction in seeding r-process nucleosynthesis. The possibility of the description of the available experimental data for cross sections of the neutron capture reaction on 10B at thermal and astrophysical energies, taking into account the resonance at 475 keV, was considered within the framework of the modified potential cluster model (MPCM) with forbidden states and accounting for the resonance behavior of the scattering phase shifts. In the framework of the same model the possibility of describing the available experimental data for the total cross sections of the neutron radiative capture on 11B at thermal and astrophysical energies were considered with taking into account the 21 and 430 keV resonances. Description of the available experimental data on the total cross sections and astrophysical S-factor of the radiative proton capture on 11B to the ground state of 12C was treated at astrophysical energies. The possibility of description of the experimental data for the astrophysical S-factor of the radiative proton capture on 14C to the ground state of 15N at astrophysical energies, and the radiative proton capture on 15N at the energies from 50 to 1500 keV was considered in the framework of the MPCM with the classification of the orbital states according to Young tableaux. It was shown that, on the basis of the M1 and the E1 transitions from different states of the p15N scattering to the ground state of 16O in the p15N channel, it is quite succeed to explain general behavior of the S-factor in the considered energy range in the presence of two resonances.