Speaker
Prof.
David Hornidge
(Mount Allison University, Canada)
Description
An accurate experimental determination of the neutron-skin thickness provides considerable constraints on the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy, which constrains the nuclear equation of state. However, one of the main systematic errors in measurements of the neutron-skin thickness of nuclei via parity-violating electron scattering comes from the beam-normal asymmetry, which in turn is heavily influenced by the Compton slope parameter. This talk will discuss the upcoming Mainz program to reduce the uncertainty in this slope parameter for various nuclei including 12C and 208Pb.
