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Emergent bulk properties of matter governed by the strong nuclear force give rise to physical phenomena across vastly different scales, ranging from the shape of atomic nuclei to the masses and radii of neutron stars. They can be accessed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-04 Giuliano Giacalone , Govert Nijs , Wilke van der Schee

The neutron skin thickness in neutron-rich nuclei has traditionally been measured using elastic fixed target electron-nucleus scattering since the 1970s. In this paper, we propose a novel probe of the neutron skin thickness through deep…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-13 Shan-Liang Zhang , Enke Wang , Xin-Nian Wang , Hongxi Xing

Understanding how protons and neutrons are located differently in an atomic nucleus can provide fundamental information on nuclear structure and have far-reaching implications for astrophysics. A precise determination of this important…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-10 Hui Zhang , Alex Akridge , Charles J. Horowitz , Jinfeng Liao , Hongxi Xing

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

The effects of neutron skin on the multiplicity ($N_{\rm ch}$) and eccentricity($\epsilon_2$) in relativistic $^{96}_{44}$Ru+$^{96}_{44}$Ru and $^{96}_{40}$Zr+$^{96}_{40}$Zr collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}}=200$ GeV are investigated with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-09 Hao-jie Xu , Hanlin Li , Xiaobao Wang , Caiwan Shen , Fuqiang Wang

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-rich nuclei provide important insights to nuclear forces and to the nuclear equation of state. Advances in ab initio methods combined with new opportunities with rare isotope beams enable unique explorations of their properties…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-01-15 P. Arthuis , K. Hebeler , A. Schwenk

To improve the constraints of symmetry energy at subsaturation density, measuring and accumulating more neutron skin data for neutron rich unstable nuclei is naturally required. Aiming to probe the neutron skin of unstable nuclei by using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-25 Junping Yang , Xiang Chen , Ying Cui , Zhuxia Li , Yingxun Zhang

The neutron skin thickness of the benchmark nucleus $^{208}$Pb is crucial for our understanding of the equation of state of nuclear matter. In this paper, we discuss the effect of the neutron skin on the flow ratio observables in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-03-19 Qi Liu , Shujun Zhao , Hao-jie Xu , Huichao Song

The roles of isospin asymmetry in nuclei and neutron stars are investigated using a range of potential and field-theoretical models of nucleonic matter. The parameters of these models are fixed by fitting the properties of homogeneous bulk…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrew W. Steiner , Madappa Prakash , James M. Lattimer , Paul J. Ellis

Heavy-ion reactions induced by neutron-rich nuclei provide a unique means to investigate the equation of state of isospin-asymmetric nuclear matter, especially the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy. In particular, recent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Lie-Wen Chen , Che Ming Ko , Bao-An Li , Gao-Chan Yong

The concept of centrality in high-energy nuclear collisions has recently become a subject of an active debate. In particular, the experimental methods to determine the centrality that have given reasonable results for many observables in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Hannu Paukkunen

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 thickness of nuclei is a sensitive probe of the nuclear symmetry energy having multiple implications for nuclear and astrophysical studies. However, precision measurements of this observable are difficult. The analysis of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-05-27 M. Warda , X. Viñas , X. Roca-Maza , M. Centelles

The correlation between the thickness of the neutron skin in Pb-208, and the degree of isospin diffusion in heavy-ion collisions is examined. The same equation of state is used to compute the degree of isospin diffusion in an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew W. Steiner , Bao-An Li

We review recent progress in the determination of the subsaturation density behavior of the nuclear symmetry energy from heavy-ion collisions as well as the theoretical progress in probing the high density behavior of the symmetry energy in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-12-25 Lie-Wen Chen , Che Ming Ko , Bao-An Li , Gao-Chan Yong

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

In this work we propose a new method to measure the evolution of the neutron skin thickness between different isotopes. We consider antiproton-nucleus interactions close to the production threshold of ${\Lambda}\overline{\Lambda}$ and…

In these proceedings, we present the three proposed observables to probe the neutron skin and symmetry energy with relativistic isobar collisions, namely, the isobar ratios of the produced hadron multiplicities ($N_{\rm ch}$), the mean…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-15 Hao-jie Xu

The radii of nucleon distribution, bulk density, and neutron skin in nuclei beyond the \beta-stability line are studied within the direct variational method. We evaluate the partial equation of state of finite nuclei and demonstrate that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-03-22 V. M. Kolomietz , S. V. Lukyanov , A. I. Sanzhur
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