Constraining simultaneously nuclear symmetry energy and neutron-proton effective mass splitting with nucleus giant resonances using a dynamical approach

Abstract

With a newly improved isospin- and momentum-dependent interaction and an isospin-dependent Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck transport model, we have investigated the effects of the slope parameter $L$ of the nuclear symmetry energy and the isospin splitting of the nucleon effective mass $m_{n-p}^*=(m_n^*-m_p^*)/m$ on the centroid energy of the isovector giant dipole resonance and the electric dipole polarizability in $^{208}$Pb. With the isoscalar nucleon effective mass $m_s^*=0.7m$ constrained by the empirical optical potential, we obtain a constraint of $L=64.29\pm11.84 (\rm MeV)$ and $m_{n-p}^*= (-0.019 \pm 0.090)\delta$, with $\delta$ being the isospin asymmetry of nuclear medium. With the isoscalar nucleon effective mass $m_s^*=0.84m$ extracted from the excitation energy of the isoscalar giant quadruple resonance in $^{208}$Pb, we obtain a constraint of $L=53.85\pm10.29 (\rm MeV)$ and $m_{n-p}^*= (0.216 \pm 0.114)\delta$.