Model for an Effective<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>Q</mml:mi></mml:math>Value for Heavy-Ion-Induced Transfer Reactions

Abstract

A model is presented which accounts for the shifts in the energy levels of a transferred nucleon due to the proximity of the colliding ions during the reaction process. Including these shifts through an effective $Q$ value in a distored-wave Born-approximation formalism leads to dramatic improvement of the calculated angular distributions for the reactions induced by 56-MeV $^{16}\mathrm{O}$ on $^{48}\mathrm{Ca}$.