Speaker: Jorge Piekarewicz (Department of Physics, Florida State University)

Impact of the neutron skin of 208Pb on nuclear observables: from finite nuclei to neutron stars

The neutron radius of a heavy nucleus provides much needed information on the poorly known density dependence of the symmetry energy. I will discuss how the measurement of the neutron radius of 208Pb at the Jefferson Laboratory, with a promised 1% accuracy, impacts a variety of nuclear observables -- from the ground-state properties of exotic nuclei to the structure of neutron stars.