Complete electric dipole response and the neutron skin in Pb208

A. Tamii, I. Poltoratska, P. Von Neumann-Cosel, Y. Fujita, T. Adachi, C. A. Bertulani, J. Carter, M. Dozono, H. Fujita, K. Fujita, K. Hatanaka, D. Ishikawa, M. Itoh, T. Kawabata, Y. Kalmykov, A. M. Krumbholz, E. Litvinova, H. Matsubara, K. Nakanishi, R. NevelingH. Okamura, H. J. Ong, B. Özel-Tashenov, V. Yu Ponomarev, A. Richter, B. Rubio, H. Sakaguchi, Y. Sakemi, Y. Sasamoto, Y. Shimbara, Y. Shimizu, F. D. Smit, T. Suzuki, Y. Tameshige, J. Wambach, R. Yamada, M. Yosoi, J. Zenihiro

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Abstract

A benchmark experiment on Pb208 shows that polarized proton inelastic scattering at very forward angles including 0° is a powerful tool for high-resolution studies of electric dipole (E1) and spin magnetic dipole (M1) modes in nuclei over a broad excitation energy range to test up-to-date nuclear models. The extracted E1 polarizability leads to a neutron skin thickness r skin=0.156-0.021+0.025fm in Pb208 derived within a mean-field model, thereby constraining the symmetry energy and its density dependence relevant to the description of neutron stars.

Original languageEnglish
Article number062502
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume107
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 03-08-2011
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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