2023/12/07 by Alberto García Martín-Caro, Martín-Caro, Alberto García, Chris Halcrow +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Nuclear physics research studies #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Rare-earth and actinide compounds
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2312.04335
openalex publication_date 2023/12/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Motivated by recent parity violating electron scattering experiments, we compute the Neutron Skin Thickness (NST) of nuclei modelled as (quantized) Skyrmions, the topological solitons of the Skyrme model. We show how in a certain approximation, the result for the NST is oblivious to the fine details of the (generally very complicated) quantum state of the soliton and only depends on the total baryon number and the isospin number. Moreover, in the leading order, the linear dependence on the asymmetry parameter is recovered, as expected both from experimental data and other models of nuclei such as the liquid drop model.