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Surface tension in a compressible liquid-drop model: Effects on nuclear density and neutron skin thickness

Nuclear Theory 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We examine whether or not the surface tension acts to increase the nucleon density in the nuclear interior within a compressible liquid-drop model. We find that it depends on the density dependence of the surface tension, which may in turn be deduced from the neutron skin thickness of stable nuclei.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0401057,
  title  = {Surface tension in a compressible liquid-drop model: Effects on nuclear density and neutron skin thickness},
  author = {Kei Iida and Kazuhiro Oyamatsu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0401057},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 1 figure, to be published in Physical Review C