Proton skins, neutron skins, and proton radii of mirror nuclei

TL;DR

This paper predicts proton skins using microscopic isospin-asymmetric equations of state from chiral interactions and explores the relationship between neutron skins and proton radii differences in mirror nuclei.

Contribution

It introduces a microscopic approach to predict proton skins and analyzes the correlation between neutron skins and proton radii differences in mirror nuclei.

Findings

Proton skin predictions based on chiral interactions.

Established a relation between neutron skin and proton radii differences.

Provided insights into isospin asymmetry effects in nuclei.

Abstract

We present predictions for proton skins based on isospin-asymmetric equations of state derived microscopically from high-precision chiral few-nucleon interactions. Moreover, we investigate the relation between the neutron skin of a nucleus and the difference between the proton radii of the corresponding mirror nuclei.