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Electric dipole polarizability of $^{40}$Ca

Nuclear Experiment 2024-02-01 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The electric dipole strength distribution in 40^{40}Ca between 5 and 25 MeV has been determined at RCNP, Osaka, from proton inelastic scattering experiments at very forward angles. Combined with total photoabsorption data at higher excitation energy, this enables an extraction of the electric dipole polarizability αD\alpha_\mathrm{D}(40^{40}Ca) = 1.92(17) fm3^3. Together with the measured αD\alpha_{\rm D} in 48^{48}Ca, it provides a stringent test of modern theoretical approaches, including coupled cluster calculations with chiral effective field theory interactions and state-of-the art energy density functionals. The emerging picture is that for this medium-mass region dipole polarizabilities are well described theoretically, with important constraints for the neutron skin in 48^{48}Ca and related equation of state quantities.

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@article{arxiv.2302.07490,
  title  = {Electric dipole polarizability of $^{40}$Ca},
  author = {R. W. Fearick and P. von Neumann-Cosel and S. Bacca and J. Birkhan and F. Bonaiti and I. Brandherm and G. Hagen and H. Matsubara and W. Nazarewicz and N. Pietralla and V. Yu. Ponomarev and P. -G. Reinhard and X. Roca-Maza and A. Richter and A. Schwenk and J. Simonis and A. Tamii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.07490},
  year   = {2024}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures