scholarly journals Neutron skin thickness in the droplet model with surface width dependence: Indications of softness of the nuclear symmetry energy

2009 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Warda ◽  
X. Viñas ◽  
X. Roca-Maza ◽  
M. Centelles
2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (06) ◽  
pp. 1850049 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Pal ◽  
S. Chakraborty ◽  
B. Sahoo ◽  
S. Sahoo

We analyze the relation between the symmetry energy coefficient [Formula: see text] of finite nuclei with mass number [Formula: see text] in the semi-empirical mass formula. The nuclear matter symmetry energy [Formula: see text] at reference density [Formula: see text] in the subsaturation density region can be determined by the symmetry energy [Formula: see text] and its density slope [Formula: see text] at the saturation density [Formula: see text]. From this relation, the neutron skin thickness ‘[Formula: see text]’ in finite nuclei with droplet model are correlated to the various symmetry energy parameters. A prominent role of the bulk symmetry energy [Formula: see text] to the so-called surface stiffness coefficient [Formula: see text] is observed in deriving the size of the neutron skin. Two types of neutron skins are distinguished: the “surface” and the “bulk”. The linear dependence of the neutron skin thickness for different stable nuclei ([Formula: see text]) on the slope [Formula: see text] of the symmetry energy as well as on the relative neutron excess [Formula: see text] is observed. Though the value of the surface width is found to be limited within 0.1[Formula: see text]fm, its contribution should not be neglected to measure neutron skin thickness.


2013 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Roca-Maza ◽  
M. Brenna ◽  
B. K. Agrawal ◽  
P. F. Bortignon ◽  
G. Colò ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Soonchul Choi ◽  
Ying Zhang ◽  
Myung-Ki Cheoun ◽  
Youngshin Kwon ◽  
Kyungsik Kim ◽  
...  

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