Excitations of Two-Phonon Surface Vibrations in Nuclei

Abstract

The features of inelastic scattering leading to two-phonon nuclear surface vibrations have been examined in Born approximation. Comparison is made with recent experimental results of inelastic alpha-particle scattering experiments on spherical nuclei. Good agreement is found between parameters derived from these experiments and Coulomb excitation. This is not surprising since the comparisons have been carried out in a relatively model-independent way.