Semimicroscopical description of the simplest photonuclear reactions accompanied by excitation of the giant dipole resonance in medium-heavy mass nuclei

Abstract

A semimicroscopical approach is applied to describe photoabsorption and partial photonucleon reactions accompanied by the excitation of the giant dipole resonance (GDR). The approach is based on the continuum-RPA (CRPA) with a phenomenological description for the spreading effect. The phenomenological isoscalar part of the nuclear mean field, momentum-independent Landau-Migdal particle-hole interaction, and separable momentum-dependent forces are used as input quantities for the CRPA calculations. The experimental photoabsorption and partial $(n,\gamma )$-reaction cross sections in the vicinity of the GDR are satisfactorily described for ${}^{89}$Y, ${}^{140}$Ce and ${}^{208}$Pb target nuclei. The total direct-neutron-decay branching ratio for the GDR in ${}^{48}$Ca and ${}^{208}$Pb is also evaluated.

Comments: 19 pages, 5 eps figures