Electromagnetic sum rules for light nuclei

2008

Electromagnetic sum rules describe gross features of the electromagnetic structure of nuclei 1). A well known example is the Thomas-Reiche-Kuhn (TRK) sum rule, which relates the integrated total El-absorption cross section to the ground state expectation value of the double commutator of the dipole operator D with the nuclear Hamiltonian. While the k inet ic energy gives a model independent contr ibut ion, i . e . , the classical sum rule ~cl = 60 NZ/A MeV mb, the nuclear twobody potential gives an additional contr ibution in the presence of exchange and/or momentum dependent (or nonlocal) forces. In this case, I