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Exploring the neutron-star matter properties via the deformed nuclear reactions

Nuclear Theory 2025-06-24 v1

Abstract

Within the framework of Lanzhou quantum molecular dynamics transport model, the correlation of initial deformation and isospin diffusion is systematically investigated in collisions of 238^{238}U + 238^{238}U. The impacts of the collision centrality, symmetry energy and initial configuration on the collective flows, neutron/proton and π/π+\pi^{-}/\pi^{+} ratios have been systematically investigated. It is found that the broader neutron-rich region is formed in the body-body collisions in comparison with the ones in the tip-tip collisions. The neutron-star matter might be created in the density region of 0.2-0.5 ρ0\rho_{0} (the normal nuclear density ρ0\rho_{0}=0.165 fm3^{-3}) formed in the 238^{238}U + 238^{238}U reaction at the incident energy of 500 MeV/nucleon. The elliptic flows of protons are related to the incident energy, collision centrality, symmetry energy and collision orientation. The hard symmetry energy enables the larger free neutron/proton ratio at the beam energy of 500 MeV/nucleon. However, the neutron/proton and π/π+\pi^{-}/\pi^{+} ratios in the density regime of 1.2ρ/ρ01.81.2\leq \rho/\rho_{0}\leq1.8 are enhanced by the soft symmetry energy with the slope parameter of L=42 MeV.

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@article{arxiv.2506.17571,
  title  = {Exploring the neutron-star matter properties via the deformed nuclear reactions},
  author = {Yuan-Qing Guo and Ya-Peng Zhang and Zhao-Qing Feng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.17571},
  year   = {2025}
}

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7 pages, 7 figures