1. Accurate Determination of the Neutron Skin Thickness of Pb208 through Parity-Violation in Electron Scattering
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S. Rahman, H. Albataineh, B. Yale, K. S. Kumar, S. Seeds, A. Deshpande, C. Ayerbe Gayoso, A. Yoon, Q. Campagna, G. M. Urciuoli, G. Leverick, R. Mammei, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, D. S. Armstrong, Paul Souder, Siyu Jian, C. Palatchi, S. Johnston, C. Jantzi, H. Bhatt, P. E. Reimer, B. Karki, Dipangkar Dutta, T. Ye, D. King, D. McNulty, M. Knauss, L. G. Tang, J. C. Cornejo, T. Gautam, S. Katugampola, P. M. King, R. W. Radloff, H. Liu, J. O. Hansen, J. Pan, D. C. Jones, Michael Pitt, S. Riordan, E. W. Wertz, S. Park, R. Michaels, Y. Tian, C. Metts, M. N. H. Rashad, P. Datta, S. Premathilake, S. Malace, W. Zhang, S. Covrig Dusa, Y. Roblin, I. Halilovic, K. A. Aniol, T. Averett, S. Barcus, C. Feldman, N. Liyange, B. Pandey, A. Zec, E. Fuchey, Charles Horowitz, Jay Benesch, Michaela Thiel, Kent Paschke, A. Narayan, C. Ghosh, D. Adhikari, Brendan Reed, B. P. Quinn, Jiawen Zhang, F. Hauenstein, Cynthia Keppel, M. Petrusky, Darko Androić, G. D. Cates, D. G. Meekins, R. Richards, V. Bellini, N. Lashley-Colthirst, A. Rathnayake, M. M. Mondal, X. Zheng, Michael Gericke, M. McCaughan, Andrew Puckett, Juliette Mammei, A. Camsonne, A. Shahinyan, B. Blaikie, C. Clarke, D. Gaskell, Y. Chen, Jim Napolitano, V. Owen, C. Gal, D. Nikolaev, D. Bhetuwal, R. S. Beminiwattha, W. Henry, T. Kutz, and D. Bhatta Pathak
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Elastic scattering ,Physics ,Equation of state (cosmology) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Form factor (quantum field theory) ,General Physics and Astronomy ,01 natural sciences ,Asymmetry ,0103 physical sciences ,Saturation (graph theory) ,Neutron ,Atomic physics ,010306 general physics ,Electron scattering ,Energy (signal processing) ,media_common - Abstract
We report a precision measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry A_{PV} in the elastic scattering of longitudinally polarized electrons from ^{208}Pb. We measure A_{PV}=550±16(stat)±8(syst) parts per billion, leading to an extraction of the neutral weak form factor F_{W}(Q^{2}=0.00616 GeV^{2})=0.368±0.013. Combined with our previous measurement, the extracted neutron skin thickness is R_{n}-R_{p}=0.283±0.071 fm. The result also yields the first significant direct measurement of the interior weak density of ^{208}Pb: ρ_{W}^{0}=-0.0796±0.0036(exp)±0.0013(theo) fm^{-3} leading to the interior baryon density ρ_{b}^{0}=0.1480±0.0036(exp)±0.0013(theo) fm^{-3}. The measurement accurately constrains the density dependence of the symmetry energy of nuclear matter near saturation density, with implications for the size and composition of neutron stars.
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- 2021
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