Microscopic description of isoscalar giant resonance excitations in ⁴⁰Ca and ¹¹⁶SN nuclei /

This thesis presents a microscopic description of isoscalar giant resonance excitations in ⁴⁰Ca and ¹¹⁶ Sn nuclei within the self-consistent Skyrme-Hartree-Fock-Random-Phase-Approximation (HF-RPA) theory. Such characteristic features of the Isoscalar Giant Resonance as strength function, transition...

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Main Author: Karki, Bhishma
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 2000.
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Summary:This thesis presents a microscopic description of isoscalar giant resonance excitations in ⁴⁰Ca and ¹¹⁶ Sn nuclei within the self-consistent Skyrme-Hartree-Fock-Random-Phase-Approximation (HF-RPA) theory. Such characteristic features of the Isoscalar Giant Resonance as strength function, transition density and cross-sections for ⁴⁰Ca and ¹¹⁶Sn nuclei are obtained. In this analysis, the SL1 Skyrme interaction associated with 230 MeV for the value of nuclear matter incompressibility coefficient K is chosen. The selection of nuclei is based on the availability of recent experimental results from Texas A&M University. The coordinate space formulation of the RPA in terms of Green's function is employed to obtain isoscalar monopole and dipole transition strength distributions for ⁴⁰Ca and ¹¹⁶Sn nuclei. Calculations are performed with the discretized single-particle continuum. Theoretical transition strength distributions are used to find quantities of interest such as energy positions of resonance states, sum rules and average resonance energies. The cross-section of 240 MeV α-particle scattering on the above nuclei are analysed within the Distorted Wave Born Approximation (DWBA) using transition densities obtained from the HF-RPA calculations. From this analysis the cross-sections for ISGDR excitations are obtained and compared with the recent experimental data obtained at the Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University.
Item Description:"Major subject: Physics".
Vita.
Physical Description:viii, 36 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (leaves 28-29).