High-accuracy measurements of A~(0) data for elastic scattering and inelastic scattering to the first excited state for n+ Pb have been performed at 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 MeV. In addition, o(0) was rneasured at 8 MeV. These data provide an important subset for the growing database for the n+ 'Pb system from bound-state energies to energies above 40 MeV, the limit of the range of interest here. This database has been interpreted via several approaches. First, a conventional %'oods-Saxon spherical optical was used to obtain three potential representations for the energy range from 4 to 40 MeV: "best fits" at each energy, constant-geometry global fit with linear energy dependences for the potential strengths for the range 4.0 -40 MeV, and an extension of the latter model to allow a linear energy dependence on the radii and diffuseness. A preference for a complex spin-orbit interaction was observed in all cases. Second, the dispersion relation was introduced into the spherical optical model to obtain a more "realistic" representation. In our approach, the strength and shape of the real potential was modified by calculating the dispersion-relation contributions that originate from the presence of the surface and volume imaginary terms. Two potentials were developed, one based only on the scattering data (from 4.0 to 40 MeV) and another based additionally on single-particle and single-hole information down to a binding energy of 17 MeV. In addition, the o. (0) and A~(8) measurements were compared to earlier conventional and dispersion-relation models. One of the latter of these included an l dependence in the absorptive surface term, and we applied this model in the 6to 10-MeV region to describe all the o. (0) and the new A~(0). A reasonably good overall description was obtained by all the models; however, only the Idependent model came close to giving a detailed agreement to the data around 7 MeV, a region where some abnormal angular dependences occur in the data. numerous reasons for this. First, there exists a wealth of high-accuracy differential cross-section o. (0) and total cross-section O. z-data over a wide energy range. Second, there also exists a large amount of complementary information about bound states, both particle and hole states, for the n+ Pb system. In addition, many phenomenological models have been developed which have shown that Pb(n, n) is a good candidate for a sphericaloptical-mode (SOM) representation. Last, there is a large amount of complementary Pb(p, p) data; this feature permits detailed comparison between models for the two scattering systems and allows investigation of isospin and Coulomb effects.Detailed information about Pb(n, n) elastic-scattering differential cross sections cr(0) have been obtained in a set of careful measurements performed at Ohio University [3 -5). From a comprehensive analysis of this work in 1985, Armand, Finlay, and Dietrich [5] found that the data set could not be 6t at all energies using Woods-Saxon (WS) form factors with constant geometry. The fits to the dif...