%0 Journal Article
%T The neutron skin of $^{208}$Pb and the density dependence of the symmetry energy
%A Francesca Sammarruca
%A Pei Liu
%J Physics
%D 2008
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevC.79.057301
%X We explore neutron skin predictions for $^{208}$Pb in relation to the symmetry pressure in various microscopic models based on realistic nucleon-nucleon potentials and either the Dirac-Brueckner-Hartree-Fock approach or the conventional Brueckner-Hartree-Fock framework implemented with three-body forces. We also discuss the correlation between the neutron skin and the radius of a fixed-mass neutron star.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4868v2