Eur. Phys. J. A (2011) 47: 154
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2011-11154-8

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

New calculations of matter radii for neutron-rich C nuclei

¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 19104, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
² Department of Physics, Princeton University, 08544, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

^* e-mail: fortune@physics.upenn.edu

Received: 9 August 2011
Revised: 25 October 2011
Accepted: 21 November 2011
Published online: 15 December 2011

Abstract

We have used a simple model to re-calculate matter radii for ^14–20C, using updated information on the relevant nuclear structure. Agreement with experiment is improved, but some small differences remain.