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Constraining hypernuclear density functional with $\Lambda$-hypernuclei and compact stars

Nuclear Theory 2014-06-23 v2 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We present a simultaneous calculation of heavy single-Λ\Lambda hypernuclei and compact stars containing hypernuclear core within a relativistic density functional theory based on a Lagrangian which includes the hyperon octet and lightest isoscalar-isovector mesons which couple to baryons with density-dependent couplings. The corresponding density functional allows for SU(6) symmetry breaking and mixing in the isoscalar sector, whereby the departures in the σ\sigma-Λ\Lambda and σ\sigma-Σ\Sigma couplings away from their values implied by the SU(3) symmetric model are used to adjust the theory to the laboratory and astronomical data. We fix σ\sigma-Λ\Lambda coupling using the data on the single-Λ\Lambda hypernuclei and derive an upper bound on the σ\sigma-Σ\Sigma from the requirement that the lower bound on the maximum mass of a compact star is 2M2 M_{\odot}.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1406.0744,
  title  = {Constraining hypernuclear density functional with $\Lambda$-hypernuclei and compact stars},
  author = {E. N. E. van Dalen and Giuseppe Colucci and Armen Sedrakian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.0744},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

10 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Lett. B, v2: minor editorial corrections

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