The pygmy dipole strength, the neutron radius of ${}^{208}$Pb and the symmetry energy

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2012-02-14

arxiv.org/abs/1202.3028v1

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 342 012009 (2012)

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

Contribution to the 2nd Iberian Nuclear Astrophysics Meeting on Compact Stars proceedings

Scientific paper

10.1088/1742-6596/342/1/012009

The accurate characterization of the nuclear symmetry energy and its density dependence is one of the outstanding open problems in nuclear physics. A promising nuclear observable in order to constrain the density dependence of the symmetry energy at saturation is the neutron skin thickness of medium and heavy nuclei. Recently, a low-energy peak in the isovector dipole response of neutron-rich nuclei has been discovered that may be correlated with the neutron skin thickness. The existence of this correlation is currently under debate due to our limited experimental knowledge on the microscopic structure of such a peak. We present a detailed analysis of Skyrme Hartree-Fock (HF) plus random phase approximation (RPA) predictions for the dipole response in several neutron-rich nuclei and try to elucidate whether models of common use in nuclear physics confirm or dismiss its possible connection with the neutron skin thickness. Finally, we briefly present theoretical results for parity violating electron scattering on ${}^{208}$Pb at the conditions of the PREx experiment and discuss the implications for the neutron skin thickness of ${}^{208}$Pb and the slope of the symmetry energy.

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