Systematic study of proton capture rates for Mo and Cd isotopes

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.