Perturbative correction to the adiabatic approximation for (d, p) reactions

Abstract

Abstract The adiabatic distorted wave approximation (ADWA) is widely used by the nuclear community to analyse deuteron stripping (d, p) experiments. It provides a quick way to take into account an important property of the reaction mechanism: deuteron breakup. In this work we provide a numerical quantification of a perturbative correction to this theory, recently proposed in Johnson (2014 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 41 094005) for separable rank-one nucleon–proton potentials. The correction involves an additional, nonlocal, term in the effective deuteron–target ADWA potential in the entrance channel. We test the calculations with perturbative corrections against continuum-discretized coupled channel predictions which treat deuteron breakup exactly.