Whether the excited cluster 14N* exists in 15O nucleus?

Abstract

Within the modified potential cluster model with forbidden states effectively taking into account the Pauli Exclusion Principle the astrophysical S-factor of radiative p14N capture to 15O ground state has been calculated. The calculation was performed at the proton energy up to 5 MeV in the center of mass system (c.m.) with taking into account broad resonances up to 3.4 MeV in c.m. To explain reasonably the available experimental data it is required to admit the existence of 14N cluster in excited state 14N* with the excitation energy equal to 5.69 MeV and momentum JP = 1-. It is assumed that in this case the 4D1/2 state wave function of the p14N* clusters relative motion may be used. There was shown that it is succeeded to describe the S-factor of p14N capture in the resonance region only under the assumption that all low-lying resonances at 260(1/2+), 987(3/2+), 1447(1/2+), 2187(3/2+), and 3211(3/2+) keV in c.m. are the 4D1/2 and 4D3/2 scattering waves.