Neutron-skin thickness of 208Pb from the energy of the anti-analog giant dipole resonance

TL;DR

This paper uses advanced theoretical models to relate the energy of a specific nuclear resonance in 208Pb to its neutron-skin thickness, providing a precise measurement consistent with previous experiments.

Contribution

It introduces a fully self-consistent relativistic approach to accurately determine neutron-skin thickness from AGDR energy in 208Pb.

Findings

Neutron-skin thickness of 208Pb is determined as 0.161(42) fm.

AGDR centroid energy is highly sensitive to neutron-skin thickness.

Results agree with previous experimental measurements.

Abstract

The energy of the charge-exchange Anti-analog Giant Dipole Resonance (AGDR) has been calculated for the 208Pb isotope using the state-of-the-art fully self-consistent relativistic proton-neutron quasiparticle random-phase approximation based on the Relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov model. It is shown that the AGDR centroid energy is very sensitively related to the corresponding neutron-skin thickness. The neutron-skin thickness of 208Pb has been determined very precisely by comparing the theoretical results with the available experimental data on E(AGDR). The result DR(pn)= 0.161(42) agrees nicely with the previous experimental results.