Nucleus giant resonances from an improved isospin-dependent Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck transport approach

Abstract

We have studied the isoscalar giant quadruple resonance (ISGQR) and the isovector giant dipole resonance (IVGDR) in $^{208}$Pb based on an improved isospin-dependent Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck transport approach using an improved isospin- and momentum-dependent interaction. With the isoscalar nucleon effective mass and the nucleon-nucleon cross section which reproduces respectively the excitation energy and the width of the ISGQR strength function, the slope parameter of the symmetry energy and the neutron-proton effective mass splitting are constrained respectively within $36<L<62$ MeV and $0.08\delta<(m_{n0}^*-m_{p0}^*)/m<0.42\delta$, by comparing the resulting centroid energy of the IVGDR and the electric dipole polarizability with the experimental data. It is found that nucleon-nucleon collisions have considerable effects on the resulting electric dipole polarizability, which needs to be measured more accurately in order to pin down isovector nuclear interactions.