Probing the structure of nuclei with the aid of bound a hyperons

It is shown that the binding energy b of heavy nuclei can serve to derive information on the nuclear radius only in the form of a certain dependence of the nuclear radius upon the proposed width of the edge region of the nucleus. The experimental b values and the experimental values of the width of the edge region result in estimates of the parameter nuclear radius₀= 1.28_–0.30^+0.42F.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 3, pp. 82–86, March, 1976.