The effect of recoil on single-nucleon transfer in heavy-ion reactions

Abstract

An approximate treatment of the effect of recoil in single-nucleon transfer in heavy-ion reactions is outlined. It is shown that the effect of recoil is to remove the restrictions on the orbital angular-momentum transfer. The effect of recoil is shown to depend upon the energy of the projectile, becoming more significant at higher projectile energies, and for the case where the neutron binding to the residual nucleus is small, it is more important for smaller final binding energies. A simple expression is obtained for the recoil amplitude and cross section for p-wave projectiles.