A dispersive optical model analysis of ${}^{208}$Pb generating a neutron-skin prediction beyond the mean field

Abstract

A nonlocal dispersive-optical-model analysis has been carried out for neutrons and protons in ${}^{208}$Pb. Elastic-scattering angular distributions, total and reaction cross sections, single-particle energies, the neutron and proton numbers, the charge distribution, and the binding energy have been fitted to extract the neutron and proton self-energies both above and below the Fermi energy. From the single-particle propagator derived from these self-energies, we have determined the charge and matter distributions in ${}^{208}$Pb. The predicted spectroscopic factors are consistent with results from the $(e,e^{\prime }p)$ reaction and inelastic-electron-scattering data to very high spin states. Sensible results for the high-momentum content of neutrons and protons are obtained with protons appearing more correlated, in agreement with experiment and \textit{ab initio} calculations of asymmetric matter. A neutron skin of $0.25\pm 0.05$ fm is deduced. An analysis of several nuclei leads to the conclusion that finite-size effects play a non-negligible role in the formation of the neutron skin in finite nuclei.

arXiv comment15 pages, 14 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1808.08895

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