Why is the nuclear symmetry energy so uncertain at supra-saturation densities?
Nuclear Theory
2014-11-20 v2 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
Within the interacting Fermi gas model for isospin asymmetric nuclear matter, effects of the in-medium three-body interaction and the two-body short-range tensor force due to the meson exchange as well as the short-range nucleon correlation on the high-density behavior of the nuclear symmetry energy are demonstrated respectively in a transparent way. Possible physics origins of the extremely uncertain nuclear symmetry energy at supra-saturation densities are discussed.
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@article{arxiv.0910.4803,
title = {Why is the nuclear symmetry energy so uncertain at supra-saturation densities?},
author = {Chang Xu and Bao-An Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.4803},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Added discussions and revised format. Version to appear in Phys. Rev. C (2010)