  An important ingredient for applications of nuclear physics to e.g.
astrophysics or nuclear energy are the cross sections for reactions of neutrons
with rare isotopes. Since direct measurements are often not possible, indirect
methods like (d,p) reactions must be used instead. Those (d,p) reactions may be
viewed as effective three-body reactions and described with Faddeev techniques.
An additional challenge posed by (d,p) reactions involving heavier nuclei is
the treatment of the Coulomb force. To avoid numerical complications in dealing
with the screening of the Coulomb force, recently a new approach using the
Coulomb distorted basis in momentum space was suggested. In order to implement
this suggestion, one needs not only to derive a separable representation of
neutron- and proton-nucleus optical potentials, but also compute the Coulomb
distorted form factors in this basis.
