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In this work we use microscopic Nucleon-Nucleus Optical Potentials (OP) to analyze elastic scattering data for the differential cross section of the $^{78}$Kr (p,p) $^{78}$Kr reaction, with the goal of extracting the matter radius and…

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At very high densities, electrons react with protons to form neutron rich matter. This material is central to many fundamental questions in nuclear physics and astrophysics. Moreover, neutron rich matter is being studied with an…

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Neutron and proton densities in the nuclear periphery are investigated within (p,n) charge-exchange isobar transitions. For this purpose we have developed parameter-free optical potentials with a detailed treatment of the in-medium…

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At very high densities, electrons react with protons to form neutron rich matter. This material is central to many fundamental questions in nuclear physics and astrophysics. Moreover, neutron rich matter is being studied with an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-11-28 C. J. Horowitz

Basing on the thickness (profile) function, previously obtained for the realistic Fermi type distribution of nucleons in nuclei, calculations are made of the microscopic eikonal phases of the nucleus-nucleus scattering and the total…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Lukyanov , E. Zemlyanaya , B. Slowinski

The density dependencies of various effective interaction strengths in the relativistic mean field are studied and carefully compared for nuclear matter and neutron stars. The influences of different density dependencies are presented and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 S. F. Ban , J. Li , S. Q. Zhang , H. Y. Jia , J. P. Sang , J. Meng

The distribution of electric charge in atomic nuclei is fundamental to our understanding of the complex nuclear dynamics and a quintessential observable to validate nuclear structure models. We explore a novel approach that combines…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-10-19 Raditya Utama , Wei-Chia Chen , Jorge Piekarewicz

We study the consistency of the description of charge distributions and radii of nuclear clusters obtained with semiclassical nuclear pasta models. These nuclei are expected to exist in the low density outer crust of neutron stars.…

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To establish credibility for the use of the Slater determinant harmonic oscillator (SDHO) density in predicting root-mean-square proton and neutron radii for Be, B, C, N, O, and F isotopes [M. Imran et al., {\color{blue}Phys. Rev. C {\bf…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-04 Z. Hasan , M. Imran , A. A. Usmani , Z. A. Khan

Interpreting high-energy, astrophysical phenomena, such as supernova explosions or neutron-star collisions, requires a robust understanding of matter at supranuclear densities. However, our knowledge about dense matter explored in the cores…

Neutron rich matter is central to many fundamental questions in nuclear physics and astrophysics. Moreover, this material is being studied with an extraordinary variety of new tools such as the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) and the…

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A new relation between the neutron skin of a heavy nucleus and the radius of a neutron star is proposed: the larger the neutron skin of the nucleus the larger the radius of the star. Relativistic models that reproduce a variety of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Charles J. Horowitz , Jorge Piekarewicz

Antiproton-nucleon ($\bar{p}N$) total cross sections are typically 3-4 times larger than the $NN$ ones at incident energies from a few hundreds to thousands MeV. We investigate antiproton-nucleus scattering as it could work as a probe of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 K. Makiguchi , W. Horiuchi , A. Kohama

A simple formula is derived that describes how the Coulomb interaction affects the proton radius in nuclei. It determines the difference between neutron and proton radii in nuclei with N approx Z. It also provides an estimate for the…

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Parameters of nuclear density distributions are derived from least-squares fits to strong interaction observables in exotic atoms. Global analyses of antiprotonic and pionic atoms show reasonably good agreement between the two types of…

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The absolute differential cross sections for small-angle proton elastic scattering off the nuclei $^{12,14-17}$C have been measured in inverse kinematics at energies near 700 MeV/u at GSI Darmstadt. The hydrogen-filled ionization chamber…

Absolute differential cross sections for elastic $p^7$Be and $p^8$B small-angle scattering were measured in inverse kinematics at an energy of 0.7 GeV/u at GSI Darmstadt. The hydrogen-filled ionization chamber IKAR was used as an active…

The double folding (DF) approach is one of the widely used methods for finding nucleus-nucleus interaction potential. In the present work, the influence of the nuclear matter density on the DF potential and on the Coulomb barrier parameters…

Particle production in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions depends on the details of the nucleon density distributions in the colliding nuclei. We demonstrate that the charged hadron multiplicity distributions in isobaric collisions at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-25 Hanlin Li , Hao-jie Xu , Ying Zhou , Xiaobao Wang , Jie Zhao , Lie-Wen Chen , Fuqiang Wang

Mass number dependence of the nuclear radii is closely related to the nuclear matter properties. It is known that the most of nuclei exhibit some deformation. We discuss how the nuclear density profile is modified by the nuclear deformation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-06-28 Wataru Horiuchi , Tsunenori Inakura