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Symmetry Energy in Nuclear Surface

Nuclear Theory 2009-05-29 v2

Abstract

Interplay between the dependence of symmetry energy on density and the variation of nucleonic densities across nuclear surface is discussed. That interplay gives rise to the mass dependence of the symmetry coefficient in an energy formula. Charge symmetry of the nuclear interactions allows to introduce isoscalar and isovector densities that are approximately independent of the magnitude of neutron-proton asymmetry.

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@article{arxiv.0811.1558,
  title  = {Symmetry Energy in Nuclear Surface},
  author = {Pawel Danielewicz and Jenny Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.1558},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages, 4 figures, contribution to 15th Nuclear Physics Workshop "Marie & Pierre Curie", Kazimierz, Poland, 2008; minor corrections

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