The proton inelastic scattering of $^{24}$O($p,p$) at 62 MeV/nucleon is described by a self-consistent microscopic calculation with the continuum particle-vibration coupling (cPVC) method. The SLy5, SkM*, and SGII parameters are adopted as an effecti
ve nucleon-nucleon interaction. For all the parameters, the cPVC calculation reproduces very well the first peak at 4.65 MeV in the $^{24}$O excitation energy spectrum as well as its angular distribution. The role of the cPVC self-energy strongly depends on the effective interactions. The higher-lying strength around 7.3 MeV is suggested to be a superposition of the $3^-$ and $4^+$ states by the results with SLy5 and SGII, whereas the SkM* calculation indicates it is a pure $3^-$ state. This difference gives a rather strong interaction dependence of the angular distribution corresponding to the higher-lying strength.
The microscopic description of neutron scattering by $^{16}$O below 30 MeV is carried out by means of the continuum particle-vibration coupling (cPVC) method with the Skyrme nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) effective interaction. In the cPVC method, a proper b
oundary condition on a nucleon in continuum states is imposed, which enables one to evaluate the transition matrix in a straightforward manner. Experimental data of the total and total-elastic cross sections are reproduced quite well by the cPVC method. An important feature of the result is the fragmentation of the single-particle resonance into many peaks as well as the shift of its centroid energy. Thus, some part of the fine structure of the experimental cross sections at lower energies is well described by the cPVC framework. The cPVC method based on a real $NN$ effective interaction is found to successfully explain about 85% of the reaction cross section, through explicit channel-coupling effects.
In this paper we present a new formalism to implement the nuclear particle-vibration coupling (PVC) model. The key issue is the proper treatment of the continuum, that is allowed by the coordinate space representation. Our formalism, based on the use
of zero-range interactions like the Skyrme forces, is microscopic and fully self-consistent. We apply it to the case of neutron single-particle states in $^{40}$Ca, $^{208}$Pb and $^{24}$O. The first two cases are meant to illustrate the comparison with the usual (i.e., discrete) PVC model. However, we stress that the present approach allows to calculate properly the effect of PVC on resonant states. We compare our results with those from experiments in which the particle transfer in the continuum region has been attempted. The latter case, namely $^{24}$O, is chosen as an example of a weakly-bound system. Such a nucleus, being double-magic and not displaying collective low-lying vibrational excitations, is characterized by quite pure neutron single-particle states around the Fermi surface.
It is well known that within self-consistent Random Phase Approximation (RPA) on top of Hartree-Fock (HF), the translational symmetry should be restored. Due to approximations at the level of the practical implementation, this restoration may be only
partial. As a result, one has spurious contributions in the physical quantities that are extracted from RPA. While there are several recipes in the literature to overcome this drawback in order to produce transition densites or strength functions that are free from spurious contamination, there is no formalism associated with the full RPA response function. We present such formalism in this paper. Our goal is to avoid spurious contamination when the response function is used in many-body frameworks like the particle-vibration coupling theory.
We develop a new formulation of the continuum quasiparticle random phase approximation (QRPA) in which the residual interaction is derived directly from the Skyrme energy functional, keeping all the velocity dependent terms of the Skyrme effective in
teraction. Numerical analysis using the SkM$^*$ parameter set is performed for the isovector dipole and the isovector/isoscalar quadrupole responses in $^{20}$O and $^{54}$Ca. It is shown that the energy-weighted sum rule including the enhancement factors for the isovector responses is satisfied with good accuracy. We investigate also how the velocity dependent terms influence the strength distribution and the transition densities of the low-lying surface modes and the giant resonances.
