J. Carter

TL;DR: The extracted E1 polarizability leads to a neutron skin thickness close to that of a neutron star, thereby constraining the symmetry energy and its density dependence relevant to the description of neutron stars.

TL;DR: In this article, a high-energy-resolution magnetic spectrometer was used to measure the excitation energy spectrum to search for the ${2}^{+}$ excitation of the 7.65 MeV Hoyle state.

TL;DR: In this paper, high-resolution halo-free beams were accelerated by the cyclotron complex at the Research Center for Nuclear Physics and measured inelastic proton scattering with high energy resolution at forward scattering angles including 0 degrees.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the excitation energy spectra populated in both proton and $\ensuremath{\alpha}$-particle inelastic scattering measurements.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of 208 Pb showed that, at very forward angles, J π = 1 − states are strongly populated via Coulomb excitation, and a separation from nuclear excitation of other modes is achieved by a multipole decomposition analysis of the experimental cross sections based on theoretical angular distributions calculated within the quasiparticle-phonon model.