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We have studied the important astrophysical 3He(α,γ)7Be and 3H(α,γ)7Li reactions in the framework of a potential model. 3He(α,γ)7Be and 3H(α,γ)7Li processes are key reactions in both bigbang nucleosynthesis and the p-p chain of hydrogen-burning in stars. The stellar 3He(α,γ)7Be and 3H(α,γ)7Li reactions were analyzed at low energies on the basis of a direct radiative capture mechanism. The astrophysical S-factors near zero energy were calculated without using the effective expansion of the S-factor or the asymptotic wave functions. In this paper, 3He(α,γ)7Be and 3H(α,γ)7Li radiative capture reactions at very low energies are taken as a case study. Using the M3Y potential, we have calculated the astrophysical S-factors for the E1 transition. In comparison with other theoretical methods and available experimental data, excellent agreement is achieved for the astrophysical S-factors of these processes.
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Sadeghi, H., Ghasemi, R. Study of the 3He(α,γ)7Be and 3H(α,γ)7Li reactions at astrophysical energies. Journal of the Korean Physical Society 64, 1654–1657 (2014). https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.64.1654
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