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The equation of state (EOS) of infinite nuclear matter with a small proton/neutron fraction is a crucial input to determine the properties of neutron stars and compare model predictions to astronomical observations. The so-called `symmetry…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-07-24 C. A. Bertulani , J. Valencia

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering is a powerful probe of neutrino properties, in particular of the neutrino charge radii. We present the bounds on the neutrino charge radii obtained from the analysis of the data of the COHERENT…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-27 M. Cadeddu , C. Giunti , K. A. Kouzakov , Y. F. Li , A. I. Studenikin , Y. Y. Zhang

We studied the charge radius, rms radius and neutron skin thickness $\Delta r_{np}$ in even-even isotopes of Si, S, Ar and Ca and isotones of N =20, 28, 50 and 82. The $\Delta r_{np}$ in doubly-magic $^{48}$Ca, $^{68}$Ni, $^{120,132}$Sn and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Virender Thakur , Shashi K Dhiman

Background: The neutron skin thickness $R_{\rm skin}^{\rm PV}$ of PREX-II is presented in Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 126}, 172502 (2021). The reaction cross section $\sigma_R$ is useful to determine the matter radius $R_m$ and $R_{\rm skin}$.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-01 Tomotsugu Wakasa , Shingo Tagami , Jun Matsui , Masanobu Yahiro , Maya Takechi

We have obtained a new limit on the electron neutrino effective charge radius from a new evaluation of the weak mixing angle by a combined fit of all electron-(anti)neutrino electron elastic scattering measurements. Weak mixing angle is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Barranco , O. G. Miranda , T. I. Rashba

We construct new effective interactions using the relativistic mean-field models with the isoscalar- and isovector-meson mixing, $\sigma^{2}\bm{\delta}^{2}$ and $\omega_{\mu}\omega^{\mu}\bm{\rho}_{\nu}\bm{\rho}^{\nu}$. Taking into account…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-17 Tsuyoshi Miyatsu , Myung-Ki Cheoun , Kyungsik Kim , Koichi Saito

In this letter, we present a new, weakly model-dependent, test for ``standard" equations of state (EoS) models that disfavor sharp and strong phase-transitions, by using neutron star mass and radius observations. We show the radii of two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-24 Zidu Lin , Andrew Steiner

An overview is presented of neutron skin predictions obtained using an empirical nonlocal dispersive optical model (DOM). The DOM links both scattering and bound-state experimental data through a subtracted dispersion relation which allows…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-24 M. C. Atkinson , W. H. Dickhoff

One of the major uncertainties in the dense matter equation of state has been the nuclear symmetry energy. The density dependence of the symmetry energy is important in nuclear astrophysics, as it controls the neutronization of matter in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-01 James M. Lattimer , Yeunhwan Lim

We study the impact of nuclear structure uncertainties on a measurement of the weak charge of $^{12}\mathrm{C}$ at the future MESA facility in Mainz. Information from a large variety of nuclear models, accurately calibrated to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-10 Matteo Cadeddu , Nicola Cargioli , Jens Erler , Mikhail Gorchtein , Jorge Piekarewicz , Xavier Roca-Maza , Hubert Spiesberger

We analyze data from the CsI, liquid Ar and Ge detectors of the COHERENT experiment and confirm within $1.5\sigma$ that the measured elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering cross section is proportional to the square of the number of neutrons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-30 Jiajun Liao , Danny Marfatia , Jiajie Zhang

New measurements of the weak charge density distributions of $^{48}$Ca and $^{208}$Pb challenge existing nuclear models. In the post-PREX-CREX era, it is unclear if current models can simultaneously describe weak charge distributions along…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Tianqi Zhao , Zidu Lin , Bharat Kumar , Andrew W. Steiner , Madappa Prakash

Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CE$\nu$NS) is a Standard Model process that, although predicted for decades, has only been detected recently by the COHERENT collaboration. Now that CE$\nu$NS has been discovered, it provides a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Julien Billard , Joseph Johnston , Bradley J. Kavanagh

We propose the use of isotopically highly enriched detectors for the precise study of coherent-elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS). CEvNS has been measured for the first time in CsI and recently confirmed with a liquid argon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-10 A. Galindo-Uribarri , O. G. Miranda , G. Sanchez Garcia

A recent new measurement and re-analysis of past measurements suggested an improved quenching factor value and uncertainty for CsI[Na]. This implies a measurement of the COHERENT experiment of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-18 Amir N. Khan , Werner Rodejohann

The CCFR collaboration reports a precise measurement of electroweak parameters derived from the ratio of neutral-current to charged-current cross-sections in neutrino-nucleon scattering at the Fermilab Tevatron. This ratio of cross-sections…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-31 CCFR Collaboration , K. S. McFarland

It has been recently suggested that differences in the charge radii of mirror nuclei are proportional to the neutron-skin thickness of neutron-rich nuclei and to the slope of the symmetry energy $L$ [B.A. Brown Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 122502…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-31 Junjie Yang , J. Piekarewicz

Photon from neutron-proton bremsstrahlung in p+Pb reactions is examined as a potential probe of the neutron-skin thickness in different centralities and at different proton incident energies. It is shown that the best choice of reaction…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-07-21 Gao-Feng Wei

The neutron is electrically neutral, but its substructure consists of charged quarks so it may have an internal charge distribution. In fact it is known to have a negative mean square charge radius (MSCR), the second moment of the radial…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 F. E. Wietfeldt , M. Huber , T. C. Black , H. Kaiser , M. Arif , D. L. Jacobson , S. A. Werner

We report the first measurement of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (\cevns) on argon using a liquid argon detector at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Spallation Neutron Source. Two independent analyses prefer \cevns over the…