Asymmetric warm nuclear matter described by Gogny and Skyrme-version models
Abstract
In this work, we perform a detailed study of the thermodynamical properties of asymmetric nuclear matter at finite temperatures by means of the Gogny force, with a particular focus on its D1 family. We emphasize the investigation of the liquid-gas phase transition with the respective analysis of phase-coexistence boundaries (binodal sections) and instability regions (spinodal contours). Furthermore, the phenomenon of isospin distillation, intrinsically related to the unstable part of the system, is also described. In order to estimate the impact of the finite range of the nuclear interaction, for each Gogny parametrization we provide a respective zero-range Skyrme version, for which the free parameters of the model are obtained with the aim of reproducing at zero temperature the same saturation density, binding energy, incompressibility, isoscalar effective mass, isovector effective mass, symmetry energy, and symmetry energy slope. As a main result, we verify systematic deviations between the Gogny models and their Skyrme-version models, particularly at higher temperatures, where the Skyrme-version parametrizations exhibit reduced binodal and spinodal regions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2504.18701,
title = {Asymmetric warm nuclear matter described by Gogny and Skyrme-version models},
author = {Odilon Lourenço and Mariana Dutra and Mario Centelles and Xavier Viñas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.18701},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
16 pages, 13 figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C