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Neutron Skin and Giant Resonances in Nuclei

Nuclear Theory 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

Some aspects, both experimental and theoretical, of extracting the neutron skin ΔR\Delta R from properties of isovector giant resonances are discussed. Existing proposals are critically reviewed. The method relying on the energy difference between the GTR and IAS is shown to lack sensitivity to ΔR\Delta R. A simple explanation of the linear relation between the symmetry energy and the neutron skin is also given.

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@article{arxiv.0704.0180,
  title  = {Neutron Skin and Giant Resonances in Nuclei},
  author = {Vadim Rodin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.0180},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

8 pages, 5 figure; Proceedings of the 28th Int. School on Nuclear Physics "Radioactive Beams, Nuclear Dynamics and Astrophysics", Erice, Italy, Sept. 16-24, 2006. To appear in Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys