Neutron skin and giant resonances in nuclei

✍ Scribed by Vadim Rodin

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 245 KB
• Volume: 59
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0146-6410
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ppnp.2007.01.023

✦ Synopsis

Some aspects, both experimental and theoretical, of extracting the neutron skin ∆R from properties of isovector giant resonances are discussed. Existing proposals are critically reviewed. The method relying on the energy difference between the Gamow-Teller resonance and the isobaric analogue state is shown to lack sensitivity to ∆R. A simple explanation of the linear relation between the symmetry energy and the neutron skin is also presented.