Department of Nuclear and Atomic Physics Seminars

Nuclear Structure Effects on Nuclear Incompressibility

by Prof. Umesh Garg (University of Notre Dame)

Wednesday, January 11, 2017 from to (Asia/Kolkata)
at TIFR, Mumbai ( P - 305 )
Description
Nuclear incompressibility is a bulk property of nuclear matter. As such, one expects structure effects to play no role in it. The only direct experimental measurement of this quantity comes from the compression-mode giant resonances--the isoscalar giant monopole resonance (ISGMR) and the isoscalar giant dipole resonance (ISGDR). There have been some experimental results recently suggesting that nuclear structure effects may influence the energy of the isoscalar giant monopole resonance and, hence, the nuclear incompressibility. In this talk we will critically examine those claims and discuss how, and if, nuclear structure effects play a role in nuclear incompressibility.