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It is shown that at one-loop order a neutrino charge radius (NCR) may be defined, which is ultraviolet finite, does not depend on the gauge-fixing parameter, nor on properties of the target other than its electric charge. This is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 J. Papavassiliou , J. Bernabeu , D. Binosi , J. Vidal

We have performed the first high precision measurement of the coherent neutron scattering length of deuterium in a pure sample using neutron interferometry. We find b_nd = (6.665 +/- 0.004) fm in agreement with the world average of previous…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 T. C. Black , P. R. Huffman , D. L. Jacobson , W. M. Snow , K. Schoen , M. Arif , H. Kaiser , S. K. Lamoreaux , S. A. Werner

The shell effect and isospin effect in nuclear charge radii are systematically investigated and a four-parameter formula is proposed for the description of the root-mean-square (rms) charge radii by combining the shell corrections and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-08-07 Ning Wang , Tao Li

Measurement of the parity-violating electron scattering asymmetry is an established technique at Jefferson Lab and provides a new opportunity to measure the weak charge distribution and hence pin down the neutron radius in nuclei in a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-16 C. J. Horowitz , K. S. Kumar , R. Michaels

We have determined the proton and the neutron charge radii from a global analysis of the proton and the neutron elastic form factors, after first performing a flavor decomposition of these form factors under charge symmetry in the light…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-02-24 H. Atac , M. Constantinou , Z. -E. Meziani , M. Paolone , N. Sparveris

Using the new results on coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering data in cesium-iodide provided by the COHERENT experiment, we determine a new measurement of the average neutron rms radius of $^{133}\text{Cs}$ and $^{127}\text{I}$. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 M. Cadeddu , N. Cargioli , F. Dordei , C. Giunti , Y. F. Li , E. Picciau , C. A. Ternes , Y. Y. Zhang

The neutron skin thickness of nuclei is a sensitive probe of the nuclear symmetry energy having multiple implications for nuclear and astrophysical studies. However, precision measurements of this observable are difficult. The analysis of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-05-27 M. Warda , X. Viñas , X. Roca-Maza , M. Centelles

We propose to extract the value of the effective neutrino charge radius from the coherent scattering of a neutrino against a heavy nucleus. In such an experiment the relevant quantity to measure is the kinetic energy distribution of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Joannis Papavassiliou , Jose Bernabeu , Massimo Passera

The root-mean-square proton and neutron radii for $^{7,9-12,14}$\rm Be, $^{10-15,17}$\rm B, $^{12-19}$\rm C, $^{14,15,17-22}$\rm N, $^{16,18-24}$\rm O, and $^{18-21,23-26}$\rm F isotopes are deduced from a systematic analysis of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-03 M. Imran , Z. Hasan , A. A. Usmani , Z. A. Khan

We show how gravitational-wave observations with advanced detectors of tens to several tens of neutron-star binaries can measure the neutron-star radius with an accuracy of several to a few percent, for mass and spatial distributions that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-24 Sukanta Bose , Kabir Chakravarti , Luciano Rezzolla , B. S. Sathyaprakash , Kentaro Takami

To improve the constraints of symmetry energy at subsaturation density, measuring and accumulating more neutron skin data for neutron rich unstable nuclei is naturally required. Aiming to probe the neutron skin of unstable nuclei by using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-25 Junping Yang , Xiang Chen , Ying Cui , Zhuxia Li , Yingxun Zhang

We examine neutron star properties based on a model of dense matter composed of B=1 skyrmions immersed in a mesonic mean field background. The model realizes spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking non-linearly and incorporates scale-breaking…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-11-11 Prashanth Jaikumar , Manjari Bagchi , Rachid Ouyed

We propose a novel method for measuring the neutron skin of heavy nuclei using collider experiments. Specifically, we demonstrate that the neutron skin thickness of the lead nucleus can be extracted in $p$+$^{208}$Pb collisions by analyzing…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-28 Grégoire Pihan , Akihiko Monnai , Björn Schenke , Chun Shen

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

The neutron charge radius is studied within a light-front model with different spin coupling schemes and wave functions. The cancellation of the contributions from the Foldy term and Dirac form factor to the neutron charge form factor is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 W. R. B. de Araújo , T. Frederico , M. Beyer , H. J. Weber

Parity violating electron scattering allows model independent measurements of neutron densities that are free from most strong interaction uncertainties. In this paper we present statistical error estimates for a variety of experiments. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-11-28 Shufang Ban , C. J. Horowitz , R. Michaels

The negative-muon capture reaction (MCR) on the enriched $^{100}Mo$ isotope was studied for the first time to investigate neutrino nuclear response for neutrino-less double beta decays and supernova neutrino nuclear interactions. MCR on…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-02-07 I. H. Hashim , H. Ejiri , T. Shima , A. Sato , Y. Kuno , N. Kawamura , S. Miyake , K. Ninomiya

A method is presented to extract the neutron-skin thickness of atomic nuclei from the second and fourth moments of the electric charge distribution. We show that the value of the proton fourth moment must be independently known in order to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-11 Tomoya Naito , Gianluca Colò , Haozhao Liang , Xavier Roca-Maza

The nuclear charge radius of $^{12}$Be was precisely determined using the technique of collinear laser spectroscopy on the $2s_{1/2}\rightarrow 2p_{1/2, 3/2}$ transition in the Be$^{+}$ ion. The mean square charge radius increases from…