Nuclear radii and nuclear structure with the MoNA Collaboration

Understanding of the inner structure of nuclei can be studied through break-up and pick-up reactions using heavy-ion collisions and fragmentation processes or electron elastic and inelastic scattering processes. In the former, low energy nuclear physics facilities such as the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) can be used to perform these experiments and the theoretical description of these reactions is often based on mean field nuclear interactions between the incoming ion and target nucleus. Analysis of experimental data from the MoNA Collaboration at FRIB is showing sensitivity to nuclear matter radii of rare isotopes enabling a new science program for this Collaboration. For the latter, the scattering amplitude is treated within the Born approximation with corrections to account for higher order, multi-photon contributions. Electron scattering experiments at JLab and laser spectroscopy at FRIB with the BECOLA facility are providing information on nuclei charge distributions. The folding of both experimental ingredients would provide unique access to neutron density distributions. In addition, a new compact detector for neutron identification that originated from the Physicists Inspiring the Next Generation (PING) program could shed new light into the spectroscopy of neutron rich nuclei. This talk will highlight preliminary results on matter and charge radii of various isotopes, along with their impact into their nuclear structures.