Nuclear skin emergence in Skyrme deformed Hartree-Fock calculations
Abstract
A study of the charge and matter densities and the corresponding rms radii for even-even isotopes of Ni, Kr, and Sn has been performed in the framework of deformed self-consistent mean field Skyrme HF+BCS method. The resulting charge radii and neutron skin thicknesses of these nuclei are compared with available experimental data, as well as with other theoretical predictions. The formation of a neutron skin, which manifests itself in an excess of neutrons at distances greater than the radius of the proton distribution, is analyzed in terms of various definitions. Formation of a proton skin is shown to be unlikely. The effects of deformation on the neutron skins in even-even deformed nuclei far from the stability line are discussed.
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@article{arxiv.0710.0542,
title = {Nuclear skin emergence in Skyrme deformed Hartree-Fock calculations},
author = {P. Sarriguren and M. K. Gaidarov and E. Moya de Guerra and A. N. Antonov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.0542},
year = {2008}
}
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16 pages, 17 figures, to be published in Physical Review C