Reduced sensitivity of the (d,p) cross sections to the deuteron model beyond the adiabatic approximation

Abstract

It has recently been reported [G. W. Bailey, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 162502 (2016)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.117.162502] that (d,p) cross sections can be very sensitive to the n-p interactions used in the adiabatic treatment of deuteron breakup with nonlocal nucleon-target optical potentials. To understand to what extent this sensitivity could originate in the inaccuracy of the adiabatic approximation we have developed a leading-order local-equivalent continuum-discretized coupled-channel model that accounts for nonadiabatic effects in the presence of nonlocality of nucleon optical potentials. We have applied our model to the astrophysically relevant reaction Al26m(d,p)Al27 using two different n-p potentials associated with the lowest and the highest n-p kinetic energy in the short-range region of their interaction. Our calculations reveal a significant reduction of the sensitivity to the high n-p momenta thus confirming that it is mostly associated with theoretical uncertainties of the adiabatic approximation itself. The nonadiabatic effects in the presence of nonlocality were found to be stronger than those in the case of the local optical potentials. These results argue for extending the analysis of the (d,p) reactions, measured for spectroscopic studies, beyond the adiabatic approximation.