The impact of deuteron breakup and neutron transfer in the d + 10B collision

Abstract

The recently measured angular distribution data for elastic ¹⁰B(d,d)¹⁰B and inelastic ¹⁰B(d,d)¹⁰B* scattering at a deuteron energy (E_d) of 14.500 MeV—with transitions to the (1⁺, 0.718 MeV) and (1⁺, 2.154 MeV) excited states of ¹⁰B—were analyzed. Additionally, data for the ¹⁰B(d,t)⁹B neutron pickup reaction involving transitions to the (3/2^-, 0.000 MeV), (5/2^-, 2.361 MeV), and (5/2⁺, 2.788 MeV) states of ⁹B [N. Saduyev et al., Physics 6 (2024) 1098], as well as the earlier data for the ¹⁰B(d,n)¹¹C proton stripping reaction at E_d = 11.8 MeV transitioning to the (3/2^-, 0.000 MeV) ground state of ¹¹C, were theoretically studied within the Continuum-Discretized Coupled-Channel (CDCC) and Coupled-Reaction-Channel (CRC) methods. The analysis shows that at forward scattering angles, the elastic scattering data are well reproduced by parameter-free CDCC calculations, which account for deuteron breakup effects. However, at larger backward angles, virtual effects from neutron transfer reactions become significant, while those from proton transfer are insignificant.