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Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. Vol. 34, pp. 295-296, 1995
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Giant Resonance Spectroscopy of 40 Ca in Electron
Scattering Coincidence Experiments
P. van NEUMANN-COSEL
Institutfiir Kernphysik. Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Schlossgarlenstr. 9.
D-64289 Durmstadt Germany
With the development of continuous wave accelerators electron induced coincidence experiments
have become a powerful tool for giant resonance spectroscopy (11. The present work reports on some
results of a recent study of the
Ca(e,ex) reaction [2]. The experiments were performed at the
MAMI A microton in Maina and at the superconducting accelerator S-DALINAC in Darmstadt.
Data were taken at four momentum transfers in the range Q = 0.25 - 0.66 fm-. The main decay
channels (protons and alpha particles) were detected with a set of up to 10
AE E
telescopes covering
an angular range of 0, = 0 - 200 relative to the recoiling excited nucleus. For details see [2].
In the Ca resonance region of about 10 - 25 MeV excitation energy one is contronted with
strongly mingled isoscalar quadrupole (GQR)
and isovector dipole (GDR) strength. Also some
isoscalar monopole (GMR) strength is found at lower energies. A multipole decomposition of GDR
and GQR contributions in the 4x-integrated cross sections is presented and the resulting E2 strength
distribution is compared to recent microscopic calculations. The multipole separation is based an
the variation of the momentum transfer under the assumption that the form factor is excitation
energy independent and no additional multipoles (X 2 3) contribute [3]. Since the method of [3]
does not lead to unique results an additional constraint is imposed by minimizing the deviation of
the resulting energy-integrated GDR form factor from a MSI-RPA calculation.
The resulting strength distributions are displayed as histograms in fig. 1. The El strength is
compared to the difference of a total photoabsorption [4] and (r,n) data [5] (open circles). One
can state
a
very good agreement which ensures the reliabilty of the decomposition method. The E2
strength is strongly fragmented with maxima around 12, 14 and 17 MeV. Similar to the observations
of a cCa(a,ax) experiment [6] a significant part resides below 15 MeV in contrast to most RPA
predictions. However, the EWSR exhaustion up to 16 MeV is only 33(S) as compared to 61(7)
deduced from the hadron data. Note that the (e,ex) value includes monopole contributions which
cannot be separated from the quadrupole strength within this approach because of the almost equal
momentum transfer dependence of the form factors. However, it is clear from high resolution (p,px)
and inclusive (e,e) data [7] that the major part of the strength below about 17 MeV is of E2 character.
The solid line in the lower part of Fig. 1 represents a recent microscopic calculation including
lplp@phonon configurations and coupling to the continuum [8]. For a description of the approach
see (91. The quality of reproduction of the experimental results is remarkable, in particular for the
region below 15 MeV which could not be described in previous RPA calculations. A detailed analysis
reveals that the low-lying E2 strength can be traced back to 2p2h ground state correlations which
are treated beyond the usual RPA level in this model [8].
Another interesting problem addressed here is the interpretation of (e,ep) angular correlation
functions (ACF). While the multipole decompostion of a decay ACF has been successfully performed,
no model independent analysis is possible for proton decay, if more than two multipoles contribute.
It has been demonstrated in [2] that the shape of ACF of the pc and pi decay channels strongly
variing with excitation energy and momentum transfer can be consistently described by a HF-RPA
continuum approach [lo]. This finding came as a surprise since a far too simple lplh model is used
to describe the excitation process (cf. the discussion of E2 strength above). One must conclude that
the ACF shapes of ~0.1 decay are largely independent of the underlying nuclear structure.
This is further demonstrated in Fig. 2 where p. and no (taken from [ll]) decay are compared
for the same excitation energy bin. Despite the very similar dominant &/,-hole structure of the
final states the angular correlations look completely different. The dashed lines are the model [lo]
Supported by the German Federal Minister for Research and Technology (BMFT) under contract number
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1 12 14 16 18 2
Excitation Energy MeV)
Fig. 1. El and EZ ,EO)strength distributions
resulting from a
Ca e,ex) multipole decom-
position.
, < I . & I *
90 160
270
360
Qv.~ degrees)
Fig. 2. Angular correlations of the Ca e,epa)
and Ca e,eno) reactions for excitation ener-
gies 19 - 20 MeV and comparable momentum
transfer.
results taking only the Hartree-Fock part, thus simulating a direct knock-out reaction. Obviously
the data are not described well. Only if the RPA-type multistep contributions are fully taken into
account solid lines) a simultaneous description of decay into both channels is achieved. The relative
HF contributions are small and the cross sections were scaled with factors 3 po) and 400 no) with
respect to the full calculations. Thus, the ACF shapes are largely defined by the RPA correlations
included in the model [lo]. A detailed analysis shows that the theoretical cross sections are dominated
by charge-exchange rescattering terms in the final state interaction. Because of the predominance
of these multistep contributions the oversimplified model of the excitation step does not affect the
ACF shapes, but rather reflects itself in a large variation of the normalization constants needed to
describe the absolute cross sections.
Further results of the present investigations including, e.g.,
a discussion of the relative role of
semi-direct and statistical decay contributions, the analysis of a0 ACF and a detailed comparison of
electron and hadron induced coincidence experiments can be found in [2, 7, 121.
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