Hiroyuki Sagawa
University of Aizu, Japan
Neutron Skin Thickness and Equation of State in Asymmetric
Nuclear Matter
The neutron skin thickness of stable and unstable
nuclei is studied in Skyrme Hartree-Fock (SHF) and relativistic mean field
(RMF) models to investigate the relation between the incompressibility,
the pressure and the equation of state (EOS) in neutron matter.
We found a clear linear correlation between the
neutron skin thickness in heavy nuclei, 132Sn and 208Pb and the
pressure of neutron matter in both SHF and RMF models,
while the correlation is weak in the unstable nuclei 32Mg and 44Ar. Relations between the neutron skin thickness and other nuclear matter
properties such as the symmetry energy coefficients and the
nuclear incompressibility will be discussed.
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