Phase-shift analysis of neutron−208Pb scattering and mean-field studies

Abstract
The existing n208Pb elastic differential cross section, analyzing power, and total cross-section data in the energy range from 4 to 30 MeV were analyzed via a phase-shift analysis in order to find out how well these data are suited for dispersion relation based mean-field studies. It was found that the data can be well described by the phase-shift method and that overlapping resonances are likely to be responsible for deviations between the data and the fits obtained in recent optical-model analyses using the dispersion relation approach.