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Atomic Parity Violation (APV) is usually quantified in terms of the weak nuclear charge $Q_W$ of a nucleus, which depends on the coupling strength between the atomic electrons and quarks. In this work, we review the importance of APV to…

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The CREX and PREX-II measurements of the neutron-skin thickness of 48Ca and 208Pb challenge standard nuclear energy-density functional (EDF) descriptions of nuclei and nuclear matter. We show that the apparent tension arises from an…

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Based on the back-propagation neural networks and density functional theory, a supervised learning is performed firstly to generate the nuclear charge density distributions. The charge density is further calibrated to the experimental…

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We explore the density variation of the correlation coefficient of the key parameters of the nuclear equation of state (EoS) with the bulk and crustal properties of neutron stars. The analysis was performed using two diverse sets of nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-26 Naosad Alam , Subrata Pal

The accurate characterization of the nuclear symmetry energy and its density dependence is one of the outstanding open problems in nuclear physics. A promising nuclear observable in order to constrain the density dependence of the symmetry…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-02-15 X. Roca-Maza , M. Brenna , M. Centelles , G. Colo' , K. Mizuyama , G. Pozzi , X. Viñas , M. Warda

New observational data of neutron stars since GW170817 have helped improve our knowledge about nuclear symmetry energy especially at high densities. We have learned particularly: (1) The slope parameter $L$ of nuclear symmetry energy at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-06-08 Bao-An Li , Bao-Jun Cai , Wen-Jie Xie , Nai-Bo Zhang

Properties of nuclear matter are investigated in the framework of relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock model with the latest high-precision charge-dependent Bonn (pvCD-Bonn) potentials, where the coupling between pion and nucleon is adopted…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Chencan Wang , Jinniu Hu , Ying Zhang , Hong Shen

Parity violation in elastic electron-nucleon scattering is studied with the basic goal of improving the understanding of electroweak hadronic structure with special emphasis on the strangeness content in the nucleon. Models for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-08-12 R. González-Jiménez , J. A. Caballero , T. W. Donnelly

We investigate the implications of parity-violating electron scattering experiment on neutron skin thickness of $^{48}$Ca (CREX) and $^{208}$Pb (PREX-II) data on the bulk properties of finite nuclei, nuclear matter, and neutron stars. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-11 Mukul Kumar , Sunil Kumar , Virender Thakur , Raj Kumar , B. K. Agrawal , Shashi K. Dhiman

The sensitivity of nuclear symmetry energy elements at the saturation density to the binding energies of ultra neutron-rich nuclei (neutron to proton ratio $\sim$ 2) and the maximum mass of neutron star is explored within a relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-06-03 C. Mondal , B. K. Agrawal , J. N. De , S. K. Samaddar

Parity-violating polarized electron scattering from nucleons and nuclei provides an excellent tool to extract valuable information on nuclear and nucleon structure, as well as to determine Standard Model couplings and higher-order radiative…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-04-15 O. Moreno , T. W. Donnelly , R. González-Jiménez , J. A. Caballero

The parity violating asymmetry $A_{PV}$ in $^{208}$Pb, recently measured by the PREX-2 collaboration, is studied using modern relativistic (covariant) and non-relativistic energy density functionals. We first assess the theoretical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Paul-Gerhard Reinhard , Xavier Roca-Maza , Witold Nazarewicz

The density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy remains a central open problem in nuclear physics. Parity violating electron scattering experiments have provided largely model-independent determinations of the neutron skin thickness…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-13 J. Piekarewicz

The density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy remains poorly constrained. Starting from precise empirical values of the nuclear volume and surface symmetry energy coefficients and the nuclear saturation density, we show how in the ambit…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 B. K. Agrawal , J. N. De , S. K. Samaddar

Elastic electron scattering has been used to paint the most accurate picture of the proton distribution in atomic nuclei. Spurred by new experimental developments, it is now possible to gain valuable insights into the neutron distribution…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-11-06 Junjie Yang , Jesse A. Hernandez , J. Piekarewicz

The nuclear symmetry energy at densities above saturation density ($\rho_0\sim 0.16 fm^{-3}$) is poorly constrained theoretically and very few relevant experimental data exist. Its study is possible through Heavy Ion Collisions (HIC) at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 V. Greco , M. Colonna , M. Di Toro , H. H. Wolter

Recently, the radius of neutron star (NS) PSR J0740+6620 was measured by Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) and an updated measurement of neutron skin thickness of ${}^{208}$Pb ($R_{\rm skin}^{208}$) was reported by the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-22 Shao-Peng Tang , Jin-Liang Jiang , Ming-Zhe Han , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

A brief overview is given of the properties of spectral functions in finite nuclei as obtained from (e,e'p) experiments. Based on recent experimental data from this reaction it is argued that the empirical value of the saturation density of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 W. H. Dickhoff , E. P. Roth

Nuclear structure observables usually most effectively probe the properties of nuclear matter at subsaturation densities rather than at saturation density. We demonstrate that the electric dipole polarizibility $\alpha _ {\text{D}}$ in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-12-31 Zhen Zhang , Lie-Wen Chen

In the present work, we use a finite range effective interaction to calculate the neutron skin thickness in $^{48}$Ca and correlate these quantities with the parameters of nuclear symmetry energy. Available experimental data on the neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-02 S. K. Tripathy , D. Behera , T. R. Routray , B. Behera