Nuclear fragmentation reactions as a probe of neutron skins in nuclei

Abstract

We investigate the contributions of various reaction channels to the interaction, reaction, charge-changing and neutron-changing cross sections. The goal is to investigate the relation between microscopic interactions and the symmetry energy component of the equation of state (EoS) of interest for the structure of neutron stars. We have made a comparison of the neutron skins extracted from diverse experimental techniques with those obtained with Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov calculations with 23 Skyrme and with 8 density-dependent interactions used in the relativistic mean field method. We have shown that no particular conclusion can be drawn on the best EoS in view of the wide range of uncertainty in the experimental data. We have further investigated the prospects of using neutron-changing reactions to assess the isospin dependence of the neutron-skin in neutron-rich nuclei.

arXiv comment16 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication, Eur. Phys. J. (2022)

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