Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2011-03-09
Phys.Rev.Lett.106:252501,2011
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
4 pages, 3 figures, some changes in text and references, version to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.252501
A precise determination of the neutron skin thickness of a heavy nucleus sets a basic constraint on the nuclear symmetry energy (the neutron skin thickness is the difference of the neutron and proton rms radii of the nucleus). The parity radius experiment (PREX) may achieve it by electroweak parity-violating electron scattering (PVES) on 208Pb. We investigate PVES in nuclear mean field approach to allow the accurate extraction of the neutron skin thickness of 208Pb from the parity-violating asymmetry probed in the experiment. We demonstrate a high linear correlation between the parity-violating asymmetry and the neutron skin thickness in successful mean field forces as the best means to constrain the neutron skin of 208Pb from PREX, without assumptions on the neutron density shape. Continuation of the experiment with higher precision in the parity-violating asymmetry is motivated since the present method can support it to constrain the density slope of the nuclear symmetry energy to new accuracy.
Centelles Mario
Roca-Maza Xavier
Viñas Xavier
Warda Michal
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