SYSTEMATIC DIRAC ANALYSES OF PROTON INELASTIC SCATTERINGS FROM AXIALLY SYMMETRIC DEFORMED NUCLEI

Abstract

Relativistic Dirac coupled channel analyses using optical potential model are performed for the 800 MeV proton inelastic scatterings from 26 Mg and the results are compared with those from several other axially symmetric deformed nuclei for the systematic Dirac analyses. Employing scalar-vector model, scalar and time-like vector optical potentials in Lorentz covariant form are calculated phenomenologically by solving Dirac coupled channel equations using sequential iteration method. Dirac equations are reduced to second-order differential equations to obtain Schrödinger equivalent effective central and spin-orbit optical potentials and it is found that the heavier deformed nucleus has the larger effective central potential strength. Using the first-order rotational collective model to describe the low-lying excited states of ground state rotational band in the deformed nuclei, deformation parameters for the excited states are calculated and it is observed that the lighter deformed nucleus has the larger deformation parameter for the lowest lying excited 2+ state at the 800 MeV proton inelastic scattering, indicating the stronger coupling to the ground state compared to that of heavier nucleus.