Charge radii of neutron deficient 40Sc and 41Sc nuclei were determined using collinear laser spectroscopy. With the new data, the chain of Sc charge radii extends below the neutron magic number N=20 and shows a pronounced kink, generally taken as a signature of a shell closure, but one notably absent in the neighboring Ca, K and Ar isotopic chains. Theoretical models that explain the trend at N=20 for the Ca isotopes cannot reproduce this puzzling behavior.
@article{arxiv.2309.02839,
title = {Surprising charge-radius kink in the Sc isotopes at N=20},
author = {Kristian König and Stephan Fritzsche and Gaute Hagen and Jason D. Holt and Andrew Klose and Jeremy Lantis and Yuan Liu and Kei Minamisono and Takayuki Miyagi and Witold Nazarewicz and Thomas Papenbrock and Skyy V. Pineda and Robert Powel and Paul-Gerhard Reinhard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.02839},
year = {2023}
}