Abstract
We present the first laser spectroscopic measurement of the neutron-rich nucleus at the subshell closure and extract its nuclear charge radius. Since this is the only short-lived isotope for which the dipole polarizability has been measured, the combination of these observables provides a benchmark for nuclear structure theory. We compare them to novel coupled-cluster calculations based on different chiral two- and three-nucleon interactions, for which a strong correlation between the charge radius and dipole polarizability is observed, similar to the stable nucleus . Three-particle–three-hole correlations in coupled-cluster theory substantially improve the description of the experimental data, which allows to constrain the neutron radius and neutron skin of .
- Received 30 January 2020
- Revised 6 March 2020
- Accepted 11 March 2020
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.132502
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