Study of proton capture rates: ⁹⁶Ru, ⁹⁸Ru

Reaction rates are crucial for understanding nucleosynthesis and energy generation in stars and stellar explosions in the field of nuclear astrophysics. In the present work, reaction rates of (p,γ) reactions for ⁹⁶Ru and ⁹⁸Ru have been calculated and obtained results are fairly consistent with the experimental results as well as with other theoretical (NON-SMOKER) results. Nuclear reaction studies related to p-nuclei are very crucial to enhance the existing knowledge of (p,γ) reactions of Ruthenium isotopes and also such studies based on reliable nuclear structure input may be helpful in reducing the uncertainty in nuclear reaction calculations