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New Roman"">Andrew
Steiner<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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New Roman"">University
of Tennessee, Knoxville<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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align="center"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"">"The
limitations of neutron star
observation-based constraints on the neutron skin thickness of
neutron-rich
nuclei"</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">Neutron star
observations have been used to predict the neutron skin
thickness of lead, and in
some cases those predictions appear quite precise. However,
there are several
limitations on the accuracy of these predictions. Obviously,
there are several
systematic uncertainties which come from the neutron star
observations. I will
briefly describe those systematics. However, I will also focus
on the more
subtle (and more pernicious) data analysis issues which arise
when connecting
observations to the neutron skin thickness. I will then describe
how lessons
learned can help us judiciously combine low-energy nuclear data
to get a more
complete picture of our the uncertainties in the nucleon-nucleon
interaction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"">Friday, July
17, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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"Times New Roman","serif"">11:00 am<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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"Times New Roman","serif"">CEBAF
Auditorium<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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