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Proton-$^{133}$Cs elastic scattering at low momentum transfer is performed using an in-ring reaction technique at the Cooler Storage Ring at the Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou. Recoil protons from the elastic collisions between the…

The recently completed PREX-2 campaign - which measured the weak form factor of lead at an optimal momentum transfer - has confirmed that the neutron skin of lead is relatively large and has provided a precise determination of the interior…

New limits on the weak mixing angle and on the electron neutrino effective charge radius in the low energy regime, below 100 MeV, are obtained from a combined fit of all electron-(anti)neutrino electron elastic scattering measurements. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-17 J. Barranco , O. G. Miranda , T. I. Rashba

The COHERENT collaboration reports the most precise measurement of the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering cross section to date. This measurement was performed with COHERENT's germanium detector array, Ge-Mini, at the Spallation…

A new method is proposed to deduce the neutron radii of neutron-rich nuclei. This method requires measuring the reaction cross sections of both the neutron-rich nucleus and its stable isotope at the same energy on a proton target. Using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 I. A. M. Abdul-Magead , Eman Hamza , Badawy Abu-Ibrahim

The COHERENT experiment measures neutrino-induced recoils from coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) with multiple nuclear targets at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), USA.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-18 M. Adhikari , M. Ahn , D. Amaya Matamoros , P. S. Barbeau , V. Belov , I. Bernardi , C. Bock , A. Bolozdynya , R. Bouabid , J. Browning , B. Cabrera-Palmer , N. Cedarblade-Jones , S. Chen , A. I. Colón Rivera , V. da Silva , J. Daughhetee , Y. Efremenko , S. R. Elliott , A. Erlandson , L. Fabris , M. L. Fischer , S. Foster , A. Galindo-Uribarri , E. Granados Vazquez , M. P. Green , B. Hackett , J. Hakenmüller , M. Harada , M. R. Heath , S. Hedges , Y. Hino , H. Huang , W. Huang , H. Jeong , B. A. Johnson , T. Johnson , A. Khromov , D. Kim , L. Kong , A. Konovalov , Y. Koshio , E. Kozlova , A. Kumpan , O. Kyzylova , Y. Lee , S. M. Lee , G. Li , L. Li , Z. Li , J. M. Link , J. Liu , Q. Liu , X. Lu , M. Luxnat , D. M. Markoff , J. Mattingly , H. McLaurin , K. McMichael , N. Meredith , Y. Nakajima , F. Nakanishi , J. Newby , B. Nolan , J. O'Reilly , A. Orvedahl , D. S. Parno , D. Pérez-Loureiro , D. Pershey , C. G. Prior , J. Queen , R. Rapp , H. Ray , O. Razuvaeva , D. Reyna , D. Rudik , J. Runge , D. J. Salvat , J. Sander , K. Scholberg , H. Sekiya , J. Seligman , A. Shakirov , G. Simakov , J. Skweres , W. M. Snow , V. Sosnovtsev , Q. Stefan , M. Stringer , C. Su , T. Subedi , B. Suh , B. Sur , R. Tayloe , Y. -T. Tsai , J. Vaccaro , E. E. van Nieuwenhuizen , C. J. Virtue , G. Visser , K. Walkup , E. M. Ward , R. Wendell , T. Wongjirad , C. Yang , Y. Yang , J. Yoo , C. -H. Yu , Y. Yu , A. Zaalishvili , J. Zettlemoyer , Y. Zheng

The correlation between the charge radii differences in mirror nuclei pairs and the neutron skin thickness has been studied with the so-called finite range simple effective interaction over a wide mass region. The so far precisely measured…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 P. Bano , S. P. Pattnaik , M. Centelles , X. Viñas , T. R. Routray

The CONUS+ collaboration has reported their first observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS). The experiment uses reactor electron antineutrinos and germanium detectors with recoil thresholds as low as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-24 Valentina De Romeri , Dimitrios K. Papoulias , Gonzalo Sanchez Garcia

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) provides a powerful framework for testing the Standard Model (SM) and searching for new physics at low energies. In this work, we examine the prospects for argon-based CEvNS experiments…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-17 Sam Carey , Vishvas Pandey

We studied the charge radius ($r_{c}$), neutron radius ($r_n$), and neutron skin-thickness ($\Delta r=r_n-r_p$) over a chain of isotopes from C to Zr with the stable region to the neutron drip line. Theoretical calculations are done with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-03 Usuf Rahaman , M. Ikram , M. Imran , Anisul Ain Usmani

The PREX and the CREX group reported their skin values. Using the Love-Franey (LF) $t$-matrix folding model with the neutron and proton densities scaled to the neutron radius $r_{\rm n}^{208}({\rm PREX2})$ and the proton radius of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-01 Tomotsugu Wakasa , Shingo Tagami , Masanobu Yahiro

New measurements of the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) are expected to be achieved in the near future by using two neutrino production channels with different energy distributions: the very low energy electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-19 B. C. Canas , E. A. Garces , O. G. Miranda , A. Parada , G. Sanchez Garcia

We present and discuss numerical predictions for the neutron density distribution of $^{208}$Pb using various non-relativistic and relativistic mean-field models for the nuclear structure. Our results are compared with the very recent pion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-09-22 Andrea Meucci , Matteo Vorabbi , Carlotta Giusti , Paolo Finelli

We investigate possible correlations between the stiffness of the symmetry energy at saturation density, the so-called $L$ parameter, and the neutron skin thickness of ${^{48}}$Ca and ${^{208}}$Pb, for which the recent measurements from the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-25 G. F. Burgio , H. C. Das , I. Vidana

Background: Measurements of neutron radii provide important constraints on the isovector sector of nuclear density functionals and offer vital guidance in areas as diverse as atomic parity violation, heavy-ion collisions, and neutron-star…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 C. J. Horowitz , J. Piekarewicz

Background: Coherent {\pi}0 photoproduction on heavy nuclei has been suggested as a reliable tool to infer neutron skin thicknesses. To this aim, various experiments have been performed, especially on 208Pb. Purpose: We analyze the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-09-29 F. Colomer , P. Capel , M. Ferretti , J. Piekarewicz , C. Sfienti , M. Thiel , V. Tsaran , M. Vanderhaeghen

The report is dedicated to the preparation of the new experiment on the neutron radiative decay what is conducted for the last years. We started the experimental research of this neutron decay branch with the experiment conducted at ILL in…

The composition and properties of infinite nuclear matter under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure remain incompletely understood. In this work, we constrain the equation of state (EoS) of nuclear matter - constructed within the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-04 Rahul Kumar , Prasanta Char , Rana Nandi

In this study, we try to extract the mass radii of the neutron and the proton from the differential cross section data of near-threshold $\omega$ and $\phi$ photoproductions on deuterium target, which is often approximated as a quasi-free…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-22 Chengdong Han , Gang Xie , Wei Kou , Rong Wang , Xurong Chen