Analysis of the 16O(p,gamma)17F capture reaction using the shell model embedded in the continuum

Abstract

We apply the realistic shell model which includes the coupling between many-particle (quasi-)bound states and the continuum of one-particle scattering states, called the Shell Model Embedded in the Continuum, to the spectroscopy of mirror nuclei: 17F and 17O, as well as to the description of low energy cross section (the astrophysical S-factor) for E1, E2 and M1 components in the capture reaction: 16O(p,gamma)17F. With the same microscopic input we calculate the phase shifts and differential cross-section for the elastic scattering of protons on 16O.