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Fundamental symmetry tests with neutrons can provide unique information about whatever will be the new Standard Model of fundamental interactions. I review two aspects of this possibility: searches for the permanent electric dipole moment…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf

Energy for a nucleus is considered in macroscopic limit, in terms of nucleon numbers. Further considered for a nuclear system is the Hohenberg-Kohn energy functional, in terms of proton and neutron densities. Finally, Skyrme-Hartree-Fock…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Pawel Danielewicz , Jenny Lee

Neutron stars are versatile in their application to studying various important aspects of fundamental physics, in particular strong-field gravity tests and the equation of state for super-dense nuclear matter at low temperatures. However,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-18 Lijing Shao , Kent Yagi

Neutron star observations, as well as experiments on neutron-rich nuclei, used to motivate one to look at degenerate nuclear matter from its extreme, namely, pure neutron matter. As an important next step, impurities and clusters in dilute…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-03-20 Hiroyuki Tajima , Hajime Moriya , Wataru Horiuchi , Eiji Nakano , Kei Iida

We present an overview of microscopical calculations of the Equation of State (EOS) of neutron matter performed using Quantum Monte Carlo techniques. We focus to the role of the model of the three-neutron force in the high-density part of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Stefano Gandolfi

Empirically determined values of the nuclear volume and surface symmetry energy coefficients from nuclear masses are expressed in terms of density distributions of nucleons in heavy nuclei in the local density approximation. This is then…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 B. K. Agrawal , J. N. De , S. K. Samaddar , G. Colo , A. Sulaksono

In this study, my main goal is to examine the nuclear matter properties across a wide range of conditions, such as temperature, density, asymmetry, pressure, and magnetic field. Understanding the effect of these factors on nuclear matter is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-21 Vishal Parmar

We investigate how the neutron drip line is related to the density dependence of the symmetry energy, by using a macroscopic nuclear model that allows us to calculate nuclear masses in a way dependent on the equation of state of asymmetric…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Kazuhiro Oyamatsu , Kei Iida , Hiroyuki Koura

The effect of density dependent symmetry energy on nuclear-stopping is studied using isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics model(IQMD). We have used the reduced isospin-dependent cross-section with soft(S) equation of state for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-12-23 Karan Singh Vinayak , Suneel Kumar

Nuclear symmetry energy is a fundamental quantity currently under intense investigation in both nuclear physics and astrophysics. The {\it softness} or {\it stiffness} of symmetry energy is still under debate and the extraction of symmetry…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-11 Shuo Yang , Ruijia Li , Chang Xu

The ultimate goal of studying isospin physics via heavy-ion reactions with neutron-rich, stable and/or radioactive nuclei is to explore the isospin dependence of in-medium nuclear effective interactions and the equation of state of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-04-14 Bao-An Li , Lie-Wen Chen , Che Ming Ko

The model dependence and the symmetry energy dependence of the core-crust transition properties for the neutron stars are studied using three different families of systematically varied extended relativistic mean field model. Several forces…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Sulaksono , Naosad Alam , B. K. Agrawal

Constraints on the Equation of State for symmetric matter (equal neutron and proton numbers) have been extracted from energetic collisions of heavy ions over a range of energies. Collisions of neutron-deficient and neutron-rich heavy ions…

The roles of isospin asymmetry in nuclei and neutron stars are investigated using a range of potential and field-theoretical models of nucleonic matter. The parameters of these models are fixed by fitting the properties of homogeneous bulk…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrew W. Steiner , Madappa Prakash , James M. Lattimer , Paul J. Ellis

We investigate the nuclear symmetry energy and neutron star properties using a Bayesian analysis based on constraints from different chiral effective field theory calculations using new energy density functionals that allow for large…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-03-12 Yeunhwan Lim , Achim Schwenk

The study of charge symmetry violation in nuclear physics is a potentially enormous subject. Through a few topical examples we aim to show that it is not a subject of peripheral interest but rather goes to the heart of our understanding of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. W. Thomas , K. Saito

Among all nuclear ground-state properties, atomic masses are highly specific for each particular combination of N and Z and the data obtained apply to a variety of physics topics. One of the most crucial questions to be addressed in mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-10 Christine Weber , Klaus Blaum , Hendrik Schatz

Extensions of nuclear supersymmetry are discussed, together with a proposal for new, more stringent and precise tests that probe the susy classification and specific two-particle correlations among supersymmetric partners. The combination…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 A. Frank , J. Barea , R. Bijker

We generalise the finite range momentum and density dependent Seyler-Blanchard nucleon-nucleon effective interaction to the case of interaction between two baryons. This effective interaction is then used to describe dense hadronic matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Sarmistha Banik , Debades Bandyopadhyay

The potential role of a cosmic vacuum dark component in the properties of neutron stars is investigated. It is assumed that the static, spherically symmetric distribution of matter within neutron stars is supported by two distinct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-05 L. F. Araujo , J. A. S. Lima , G. Lugones