Neutron Rich Nuclei in Heaven and Earth

por Jorge Piekarewicz (Florida State University)

viernes 26 may. 2006 12:00 → 13:00 Europe/Madrid

Sala Seminarios IFIC (Edf. Institutos de Investigación)

The neutron radius of a heavy nucleus provides much needed information on the equation of state of neutron rich matter, particularly on the poorly known density dependence of the symmetry energy. I will discuss how the measurement of the neutron radius of 208Pb at the Jefferson Laboratory, with a promised 1% accuracy, impacts a variety of nuclear observables -- from the ground-state properties of exotic nuclei to the structure of neutron stars.