Microscopic study of the isoscalar giant resonances in 208Pb induced by inelastic α scattering

The energetic beam of (spin and isospin zero) alpha-particles remains a very efficient probe for the nuclear isoscalar giant resonances. In the present work, a microscopic folding model study of the isoscalar giant resonances in Pb-208 induced by inelastic alpha + Pb-208 scattering at E-lab = 240 and 386 MeV has been performed using the (complex) CDM3Y6 interaction and nuclear transition densities given by both the collective model and Random Phase Approximation (RPA) approach. The fractions of energy weighted sum rule around the main peaks of the isoscalar monopole, dipole and quadrupole giant resonances were probed in the Distorted Wave Born Approximation analysis of inelastic alpha + Pb-208 scattering using the double-folded form factors given by different choices of the nuclear transition densities. The energy distribution of the E0, E1 and E2 strengths given by the multipole decomposition analyses of the (alpha, alpha') data under study are compared with those predicted by the RPA calculation. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.