Systematic study of proton capture rates for Mo and Cd isotopes

Awanish Bajpeyi; A. J. Koning; A. Shukla; Sven Åberg

doi:10.1140/epja/i2015-15157-1

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Systematic study of proton capture rates for Mo and Cd isotopes

Awanish Bajpeyi¹, A. J. Koning², A. Shukla¹^* and Sven Åberg³

¹ Department of Physics, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Raebareli, India
² Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group NRG, Petten, The Netherlands
³ Mathematical Physics, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, S-221 00, Lund, Sweden

Received: 4 June 2015
Accepted: 3 November 2015
Published online: 3 December 2015

Abstract

Proton capture reactions play a very important role in the understanding of nucleosynthesis. In the present work, p-capture reactions have been studied coherently with nuclear structure for the nuclei under consideration. We have calculated proton capture cross sections and S-factor for relevant isotopes of molybdenum and cadmium in the energy range 2.0 to 4.5 Mev. Calculated results for nuclear structure as well reaction rates are compared with the available experimental and theoretical results and are found to be in good agreement.