Model for an EffectiveQValue for Heavy-Ion-Induced Transfer Reactions

Abstract
A model is presented which accounts for the shifts in the energy levels of a transferred nucleon due to the proximity of the colliding ions during the reaction process. Including these shifts through an effective Q value in a distored-wave Born-approximation formalism leads to dramatic improvement of the calculated angular distributions for the reactions induced by 56-MeV O16 on Ca48.