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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…

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Forthcoming fixed-target coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering experiments aim at measurements with $\cal{O}(\text{tonne})$-scale detectors and substantially reduced systematic and statistical uncertainties. With such high quality…

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The nuclear binding energies for 28 nuclei including several isotopic chains with masses ranging from A=64 to A=226 were evaluated using the Skyrme effective nucleon-nucleon interaction and the Extended Thomas-Fermi approximation. The…

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Based on the current measurement of the neutron distribution radius ($R_n$) of $^{208}$Pb through the PREX-2 data, we re-visited the recently developed G3 and IOPB-I force parameter by fine-tuning some of the specific couplings within the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-11 Jeet Amrit Pattnaik , R. N. Panda , M. Bhuyan , S. K. Patra

The second-order moment of the nuclear charge density($R^2_c$) is dominated by the mean square radius(msr) of the point proton distribution($R_p^2$), while the fourth-order moment($Q^4_c$) depends on the msr of the point neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-03 Haruki Kurasawa , Toshimi Suda , Toshio Suzuki

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

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

Relativistic mean-field models (RMF) based on the exchange of $\sigma$, $\omega$, and $\rho$ mesons including non-linear nucleon-$\sigma$ couplings and density-dependent $\rho$ coupling, are considered. A large set of models is generated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-01 Luca Passarella , Jerome Margueron , Giuseppe Pagliara

A Fourier-Bessel analysis is used to fit charge and magnetization densities to data for the nucleon Sachs form factors. The neutron and proton magnetization densities are very similar, but the proton charge density is significantly softer.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 James J. Kelly

To more precisely constrain the Equation of State (EOS) of supradense neutron-rich nuclear matter, future high-precision X-ray and gravitational wave observatories are proposed to measure the radii of neutron stars (NSs) with an accuracy…

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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

Recently an improved value of neutron skin thickness of $^{208}\text{Pb}$ was reported in Lead Radius EXperiment-2 (PREX-2) to be $R_{\text{skin}}=R_n - R_p=(0.283\pm 0.071)$ fm which corresponds to high estimations of nuclear symmetry…

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The study of nuclear effects for J/{\psi} production in proton-nucleus collisions is crucial for a correct interpretation of the J/{\psi} suppression patterns experimentally observed in heavy-ion collisions. By means of three representative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-28 Chun-Gui Duan , Jian-Chao Xu , Li-Hua Song

The accurate measurement of neutron skin thickness of $^{208}$Pb by the PREX Collaboration suggests a large value of the nuclear symmetry energy slope parameter, $L$, whereas the smaller $L$ is preferred to account for the small…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-07 Tsuyoshi Miyatsu , Myung-Ki Cheoun , Kyungsik Kim , Koichi Saito

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

The neutron-skin thickness of heavy nuclei provides a fundamental link to the equation of state of neutron-rich matter, and hence to the properties of neutron stars. The Lead Radius Experiment ("PREX") at Jefferson Laboratory has recently…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 J. Piekarewicz

We study the diversities in the properties of the neutron stars arising due to the different choices for the cross-coupling between various mesons which governs the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy in the extended…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-25 N. Alam , A. Sulaksono , B. K. Agrawal

The structure and the weak interaction mediated rates of the heavy waiting point (WP) nuclei $^{80}$Zr, $^{84}$Mo, $^{88}$Ru, $^{92}$Pd and $^{96}$Cd along $N = Z$ line were studied within the interacting boson model-1 (\mbox{IBM-1}) and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-07 Jameel-Un Nabi , Mahmut Boyukata

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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-11-23 Zu-Xing Yang , Xiao-Hua Fan , Tomoya Naito , Zhong-Ming Niu , Zhi-Pan Li , Haozhao Liang