Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2004-07-05
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
9 pages, 2 figures, Talk presented at the 8th International Spring Seminar on Nuclear Physics on Key Topics in Nuclear Structu
Scientific paper
A semiclassical model based on the solution of the Vlasov equation for finite systems with a sharp moving surface has been used to study the isoscalar quadrupole and octupole collective modes in heavy spherical nuclei. Within this model, a unified description of both low-energy surface modes and higher-energy giant resonances has been achieved by introducing a coupling between surface vibrations and the motion of single nucleons. Analytical expressions for the collective response functions of different multipolarity can be derived by using a separable approximation for the residual interaction between nucleons. The response functions obtained in this way give a good qualitative description of the quadrupole and octupole response in heavy nuclei. Although shell effects are not explicitly included in the theory, our semiclassical response functions are very similar to the quantum ones. This happens because of the well known close relation between classical trajectories and shell structure. The role played by particular nucleon trajectories and their connection with various features of the nuclear response is displayed most clearly in the present approach, we discuss in some detail the damping of low-energy octupole vibrations and give an explicit expression showing that only nucleons moving on triangular orbits can contribute to this damping.
Abrosimov Valery I.
Dellafiore A.
Matera F.
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