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The dispersive optical model (DOM) is employed to simultaneously describe elastic nucleon scattering data for ${}^{40}$Ca, ${}^{48}$Ca, and ${}^{208}$Pb as well as observables related to the ground state of these nuclei, with emphasis on…
A review of recent applications of the nonlocal dispersive optical model (DOM) is presented that allows a simultaneous description of nuclear structure and nuclear reactions. An assessment of the quality of the resulting potentials for…
A nonlocal dispersive-optical-model analysis has been carried out for neutrons and protons in $^{208}$Pb. Elastic-scattering angular distributions, total and reaction cross sections, single-particle energies, the neutron and proton numbers,…
A nonlocal dispersive-optical-model analysis has been carried out for neutrons and protons in $^{48}$Ca. Elastic-scattering angular distributions, total and reaction cross sections, single-particle energies, the neutron and proton numbers,…
Foster {\it et al.} measured total neutron cross sections $\sigma_{\rm T}$ of n+$^{208}$Pb scattering at $14.137$MeV. Carlson {\it et al.} measured $\sigma_{\rm R}$ for $p$+$^{48}$Ca scattering in $23 \text{--} 48$MeV. Tanaka {\it et al.}…
The recently developed ``imaging-by-smashing" technique has emerged as a powerful approach to connect final-state collective flow phenomena in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions with the intrinsic structure of the colliding nuclei. While…
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…
In our previous paper, we determined $r_{\rm skin}^{208}({\rm exp})=0.278 \pm 0.035$~fm from $\sigma_{\rm R}$ for p+$^{208}$Pb scattering, using the Kyushu (chiral) $g$-matrix folding model with the densities calculated with D1S-GHFB with…
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…
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…
A review of the recent applications of the dispersive optical model (DOM) is presented. Emphasis is on the nonlocal implementation of the DOM that is capable of describing ground-state properties accurately when data like the nuclear charge…
A new nonlocal dispersive-optical-model analysis has been carried out for neutrons and protons in $^{48}$Ca that reproduces the weak-form-factor measurement of CREX. In addition to elastic-scattering angular distributions, total and…
[Background]: In our previous paper, we predicted $r_{\rm skin}$, $r_{\rm p}$, $r_{\rm n}$, $r_{\rm m}$ for $^{40-60,62,64}$Ca after determining the neutron dripline, using the Gogny-D1S HFB with and without the angular momentum projection…
Based on the relativistic impulse approximation of proton-nucleus elastic scattering theory, the nucleon density distribution and neutron skin thickness of $^{48}$Ca are estimated via the deep learning method. The neural-network-generated…
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…
Very lately, the PREX and the CREX collaboration present skin values, $r_{\rm skin}^{208}({\rm newPREX2}) =0.278 \pm 0.078\ {\rm (exp)} \pm 0.012\ {\rm (theor.)}\,{\rm fm}$ and $r_{\rm skin}^{48}=0.121 \pm 0.026\ {\rm (exp)} \pm 0.024\ {\rm…
The neutron density distributions and neutron skin thicknesses in $^{40,48}$Ca are determined from the angular distributions of the cross sections and analyzing powers of polarized proton elastic scattering at $E_p = 295$ MeV. Based on the…
The Lead Radius Experiment (PREX) has provided the first model-independent evidence in favor of a neutron-rich skin in ${}^{208}$Pb. Although the error bars are large, the reported large central value of 0.33\,fm is particularly intriguing.…
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…
The neutron skin thickness $\Delta r_{np}$ in heavy nuclei has been known as one of the most sensitive terrestrial probes of the nuclear symmetry energy around $\frac{2}{3}$ of the saturation density $\rho_0$ of nuclear matter. Existing…