Conveners
Session 8: Nuclear charge radii, staggering and shell effects, neutron skin
- Anatoli Afanasjev ((Mississippi State University, USA)(remote))
The neutron-deficient lead region has myriad competing configurations of differing nuclear shapes. This competition is greatest when approaching the N=104 midshell, where deformation driving residual interactions become strong enough to challenge the stabilising effects of the nearby proton shell closure. Here, spherical, prolate, and oblate shapes can all be found as either ground or...
Precision measurements in exotic beam facilities deliver great amounts of new information on isotopic shifts of nuclear charge radii. The radii as such are usually well described by modern nuclear density functional theory (DFT) within their typical extrapolation uncertainty of 0.02 fm. However, trends of radii which are quantified by radius differences, as istopic shifts, or three point...
Laser spectroscopy experiments provide a precise measurement of the changes in the nuclear mean-square charge radii and the electromagnetic moments of isotopes. State-of-the-art techniques can routinely measure these properties of the ground state and long-lived isomers which are produced in minute samples at radioactive ion beam facilities. The region of the nuclear chart between the magic Ca...
