Surface tension in a compressible liquid-drop model: Effects on nuclear density and neutron skin thickness

Abstract

We examine whether or not the surface tension acts to increase the nucleon density in the nuclear interior within a compressible liquid-drop model. We find that it depends on the density dependence of the surface tension, which may in turn be deduced from the neutron skin thickness of stable nuclei.

4 pages, 1 figure, to be published in Physical Review C

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• Surface Symmetry Energy
• Saturation of nuclear matter and radii of unstable nuclei
• Proton-nucleus elastic scattering and the equation of state of nuclear matter

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