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The relation between the slope of the nuclear symmetry energy at saturation density and the neutron skin thickness is investigated. Constraints on the slope of the symmetry energy are deduced from the neutron skin data obtained in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-02-22 M. Warda , M. Centelles , X. Viñas , X. Roca-Maza

I investigate the elastic electron scattering off nuclei far from the stability line. The effects of the neutron and proton skins and halos on the differential cross sections are explored. Examples are given for the charge distribution in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. A. Bertulani

The correlation between neutron skin-thickness of a neutron-rich nucleus and slope parameter of symmetry energy is assessed as a function of density using relativistic mean field models containing non-linear couplings among different…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-06 Chiranjib Mondal

Expressing explicitly the parameters of the standard Skyrme interaction in terms of the macroscopic properties of asymmetric nuclear matter, we show in the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock approach that unambiguous correlations exist between observables…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-03-27 Lie-Wen Chen , Che Ming Ko , Bao-An Li , Jun Xu

A well-established observation in nuclear physics is that in neutron-rich spherical nuclei the distribution of neutrons extends farther than the distribution of protons. In this work, we scrutinize the influence of this so called…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-24 Ilkka Helenius , Hannu Paukkunen , Kari J. Eskola

The neutron skin of nuclei is an important fundamental property, but its accurate measurement faces many challenges. Inspired by charge symmetry of nuclear forces, the neutron skin of a neutron-rich nucleus is related to the difference…

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We analyze the neutron skin thickness in finite nuclei with the droplet model and effective nuclear interactions. The ratio of the bulk symmetry energy J to the so-called surface stiffness coefficient Q has in the droplet model a prominent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-01 M. Warda , X. Vinas , X. Roca-Maza , M. Centelles

The strong dependence of Coulomb energies on nuclear radii makes it possible to extract the latter from calculations of the former. The resulting estimates of neutron skins indicate that two mechanisms are involved. The first…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-06-08 J. Bonnard , S. M. Lenzi , A. P. Zuker

The neutron skin of atomic nuclei impacts the structure of neutron-rich nuclei, the equation of state of nucleonic matter, and the size of neutron stars. Here we predict the neutron skin of selected light- and medium-mass nuclei using…

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We study relationships between the neutron-rich skin of a heavy nucleus and the properties of neutron-star crusts. Relativistic effective field theories with a thicker neutron skin in $^{208}$Pb have a larger electron fraction and a lower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. J. Horowitz , J. Piekarewicz

The static dipole polarizability, $\alpha_{\rm D}$, in ${}^{208}$Pb has been recently measured with high-resolution via proton inelastic scattering at the Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP). This observable is thought to be…

Inspired by various studies on extracting the density distributions of nuclei from their collisions at ultrarelativistic energies, in the present work we investigate the possibility of extracting the neutron-skin thickness $\Delta r_{np}$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-26 Tian-Ze Li , Lu-Meng Liu , Jun Xu , Zhong-Zhou Ren

Accurate knowledge about the neutron skin thickness $\Delta R_{np}$ in $^{208}$Pb has far-reaching implications for different communities of nuclear physics and astrophysics. Yet, the novel Lead Radius Experiment (PREX) did not yield…

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Motivated by recent parity violating electron scattering experiments, we compute the Neutron Skin Thickness (NST) of nuclei modelled as (quantized) Skyrmions, the topological solitons of the Skyrme model. We show how in a certain…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-08 Alberto García Martín-Caro , Chris Halcrow

We observe various robust linear correlations related to neutron skin thickness ($\Delta R_{\rm np}$) within different interaction ensembles, including newly proposed random Skyrme ensemble. The robust linear correlation between $\Delta…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-19 Y. Lei , X. Lian , C. L. Bai

Neutron skin is an exotic phenomena in unstable nuclei. The various effects in nuclear reactions caused by the neutron skin and also its relation with the properties of nuclear structure are reviewed in this article. Based on numerous…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-12 Meng-Qi Ding , De-Qing Fang , Yu-Gang Ma

Neutron skin thickness ($\Delta r_{\rm np}$) of nuclei and the inferred nuclear symmetry energy are of critical importance to nuclear physics and astrophysics. It is traditionally measured by nuclear processes with significant theoretical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-07 Hao-jie Xu , Hanlin Li , Ying Zhou , Xiaobao Wang , Jie Zhao , Lie-Wen Chen , Fuqiang Wang

We study theoretically how we can determine the neutron density distributions of unstable nuclei from proton elastic scattering. We apply the relativistic impulse model to study the sensitivities of the observables to the density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 K. Kaki , S. Hirenzaki

We show that the neutron skin thickness $\Delta r_{np}$ of heavy nuclei is uniquely fixed by the symmetry energy density slope $L({\rho})$ at a subsaturation cross density $\rho_c \approx 0.11$ fm$^{-3}$ rather than at saturation density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-07-02 Zhen Zhang , Lie-Wen Chen