Ab initio description of monopole resonances in light- and medium-mass nuclei

Abstract

The paper is the third of a series dedicated to the ab initio description of monopole giant resonances in mid-mass closed- and open-shell nuclei via the so-called projected generator coordinate method. The present focus is on the computation of the moments \(m_k\) of the monopole strength distribution, which are used to quantify its centroid energy and dispersion. First, the capacity to compute low-order moments via two different methods is developed and benchmarked for the \(m_1\) moment. Second, the impact of the angular momentum projection on the centroid energy and dispersion of the monopole strength is analysed before comparing the results to those obtained from consistent quasi-particle random phase approximation calculations. Next, the so-called energy weighted sum rule (EWSR) is investigated. First, the appropriate ESWR in the center-of-mass frame is derived analytically. Second, the intrinsic EWSR is tested in order to quantify the (unwanted) local-gauge symmetry breaking of the presently employed chiral effective field theory (\(\chi \)EFT) interactions. Finally, the infinite nuclear matter incompressibility associated with the employed \(\chi \)EFT interactions is extracted by extrapolating the finite-nucleus incompressibility computed from the monopole centroid energy.