Nuclear charge radii of silicon isotopes
Kristian König🇩🇪 · Julian C. Berengut🇦🇺 · Anastasia Borschevsky🇳🇱 · Alex Brinson🇺🇸 · B. Alex Brown🇺🇸 · Adam Dockery🇺🇸 · Serdar Elhatisari🇹🇷 · Ephraim Eliav🇮🇱 · Ronald F. Garcia Ruiz🇺🇸 · Jason D. Holt🇨🇦 · Bai-Shan Hu🇨🇦 · Jonas Karthein🇺🇸 and 11 other authors
The nuclear charge radius of Si was determined using collinear laser spectroscopy. The experimental result was confronted with ab initio nuclear lattice effective field theory, valence-space in-medium similarity renormalization group, and mean field calculations, highlighting important achievements and challenges of modern many-body methods. The charge radius of Si completes the radii of the mirror pair Ar - Si, whose difference was correlated to the slope of the symmetry energy in the nuclear equation of state. Our result suggests \,MeV, which agrees with complementary observables.