Gamma Rays from Deuteron Stripping Reactions

Abstract

The distorted-wave Born approximation is used to calculate the $p\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\gamma}$ angular correlation from several deuteron-stripping ($d, p$) reactions. One $l=2$ and four $l=1$ captures are considered. Optical potentials with rounded edges are used to distort the wave functions. In some cases the correlation is considerably changed from the pattern predicted by the plane wave Born approximation, and the distortion effects are strongly dependent on the direction of the emitted proton, and on the type of distortion assumed. We include a general discussion of the theory of the ($d, p\ensuremath{\gamma}$) correlation.