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Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 032503 (2006) [4 pages]

Proton Reaction Cross Sections as Measures of the Spatial Distibutions of Neutrons in Exotic Nuclei

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K. Amos1,*, W. A. Richter2,†, S. Karataglidis1,‡, and B. A. Brown3,§
1School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
2Department of Physics, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville 7530, South Africa and
3National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics & Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48864, USA

Received 8 September 2005; published 27 January 2006

Proton and neutron densities from Skyrme-Hartree-Fock calculations of a number of nuclei with masses ranging from 28 to 58 have been used to generate optical potentials for proton elastic scattering. Those potentials, generated by folding the structure functions with effective in-medium nucleon-nucleon (NN) interactions, have been used to evaluate proton total reaction cross sections; cross sections that reveal signatures of the structures.

© 2006 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.032503
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.032503
PACS:
21.10.Gv, 24.10.Ht, 25.40.Cm

*Electronic address: amos@physics.unimelb.edu.au

Electronic address: richter@sun.ac.za

Electronic address: kara@physics.unimelb.edu.au

§Electronic address: brown@nscl.msu.edu