Influence of orthogonalization procedure on astrophysical S-factor for the direct $\alpha +d$ $\to$ ${}^6$Li + $\gamma$ capture process in a three-body model

Abstract

The astrophysical S-factor for the direct $\alpha (d,\gamma {)}^6\mathrm{Li}$ capture reaction is calculated in a three-body model based on the hyperspherical Lagrange-mesh method. A sensitivity of the E1 and E2 astrophysical S-factors to the orthogonalization method of Pauli forbidden states in the three-body system is studied. It is found that the method of orthogonalising pseudopotentials (OPP) yields larger isotriplet ($T=1$) components than the supersymmetric transformation (SUSY) procedure. The E1 astrophysical S-factor shows the same energy dependence in both cases, but strongly different absolute values. At the same time, the E2 S-factor does not depend on the orthogonalization procedure. As a result, the OPP method yields a very good description of the direct data of the LUNA collaboration at low energies, while the SUSY transformation strongly underestimates the LUNA data. \keywords{three-body model; orthogonalization method; astrophysical S factor.

Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1808.04125