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This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.162502.
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The nuclear charge radius of ^{32}Si was determined using collinear laser spectroscopy. The experimental result was confronted with ab initio nuclear lattice effective field theory, valence-space in-medium similarity renormalization group, and mean field calculations, highlighting important achievements and challenges of modern many-body methods. The charge radius of ^{32}Si completes the radii of the mirror pair ^{32}Ar-^{32}Si, whose difference was correlated to the slope L of the symmetry energy in the nuclear equation of state. Our result suggests L≤60 MeV, which agrees with complementary observables.
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Fast beam collinear laser spectroscopy is the established method to investigate nuclear ground state properties such as the spin, the electromagnetic moments, and the charge radius of exotic nuclei. These are extracted with high precision from atomic observables, i.e., the hyperfine splitting and the isotope shift, which become possible due to a large reduction of the Doppler broadening by compressing the velocity width of the ion beam through electrostatic acceleration. With the advancement of experimental methods and applied devices, e.g., to measure and stabilize the laser frequency, the acceleration potential became the dominant systematic uncertainty contribution. To overcome this, we present a custom-built high-voltage divider, which was developed and tested at the German metrology institute, and a feedback loop that enabled collinear laser spectroscopy to be performed at a 100-kHz level. Furthermore, we describe the impact of field penetration into the laser-ion interaction region. This affects the determined isotope shifts and hyperfine splittings if Doppler tuning is applied, i.e., the ion beam energy is altered instead of scanning the laser frequency. Using different laser frequencies that were referenced to a frequency comb, the field penetration was extracted laser spectroscopically. This allowed us to define an effective scanning potential to still apply the faster and easier Doppler tuning without introducing systematic deviations.