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We construct the equation of state (EOS) of dense matter covering a wide range of temperature, proton fraction, and density for the use of core-collapse supernova simulations. The study is based on the relativistic mean-field (RMF) theory,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-03-26 H. Shen , H. Toki , K. Oyamatsu , K. Sumiyoshi

For a dense stellar matter, which is electrically neutral and in beta equilibrium, the electron chemical potential, mu_e, will depend nontrivially on baryonic matter density. It is generally expected that as density increases, the electron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-09 Kyungmin Kim , Hyun Kyu Lee

The symmetry energy contribution to the nuclear Equation of State (EoS) impacts various phenomena in nuclear astrophysics, nuclear structure, and nuclear reactions. Its determination is a key objective of contemporary nuclear physics with…

The impact of matter properties at subnuclear densities on the evolution of protoneutron stars is investigated. Several models of nuclear equation of state (EOS) are constructed with varying saturation parameters, particularly the symmetry…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-25 Ken'ichiro Nakazato , Hajime Togashi , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Hideyuki Suzuki

We investigate how higher-order symmetry-energy coefficients of the equation of state (EOS) describing $npe\mu$ core matter impact key neutron star (NS) properties at its crust inner edge, its moment of inertia and corresponding crustal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-25 W. M. Seif , A. S. Hashem

In numerical simulations of core-collapse supernova and binary neutron stars mergers, information about the energetics and composition of matter is implemented via external tables covering the huge ranges of thermodynamic conditions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-11 Adriana R. Raduta , Mikhail V. Beznogov

Central collisions induced by high energy radioactive beams can be used as a novel means to obtain crucial information about the high density ({\rm HD}) behaviour of nuclear symmetry energy. This information is critical for understanding…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Bao-An Li

Microscopic studies of nuclear matter under diverse conditions of density and asymmetry are of great contemporary interest. Concerning terrestrial applications, they relate to future experimental facilities that will make it possible to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 F. Sammarruca

The LIGO-Virgo collaboration ground-breaking detection of the binary neutron-star merger event, GW170817, has intensified efforts towards the understanding of the equation of state (EoS) of nuclear matter. In this letter, we compare…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-07-18 C. Y. Tsang , M. B. Tsang , P. Danielewicz , W. G. Lynch , F. J. Fattoyev

Simultaneous measurement of mass and radius with high precision is essential to unravel the equation of state of matter at the centre of neutron stars. Measurement of massive pulsars indicates that the equation of state has to be stiff at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 Asim Kumar Saha , Ritam Mallick

On the basis of the percolation picture from the hadronic phase with hyperons to the quark phase with strangeness, we construct a new equation of state (EOS) with the pressure interpolated as a function of the baryon density. The maximum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-06-21 Kota Masuda , Tetsuo Hatsuda , Tatsuyuki Takatsuka

From the very first multimessenger event of GW170817, clean robust constraints can be obtained for the tidal deformabilities of the two stars involved in the merger, which provides us unique opportunity to study the equation of states…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-07-23 Ang Li , Zhen-Yu Zhu

Understanding the equation of state (EOS) of neutron stars (NSs) is a fundamental challenge in astrophysics and nuclear physics. A first-order phase transition (FOPT) at high densities could lead to the formation of a quark core,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-11 Zuhua Ji , Jiarui Chen

Utilizing various astrophysical constraints on neutron star structures, we carry out a Bayesian analysis on the density-dependent behaviors of coupling constants in RMF models as well as the nuclear matter properties at supranuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-12 Cheng-Jun Xia , Wen-Jie Xie , Mohemmedelnazier Bakhiet

The first detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star-neutron star merger, GW170817, has opened up a new avenue for constraining the ultradense-matter equation of state (EOS). The deviation of the observed waveform from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 Carolyn A. Raithel

We show that the neutron skin thickness $\Delta r_{np}$ of heavy nuclei is uniquely fixed by the symmetry energy density slope $L({\rho})$ at a subsaturation cross density $\rho_c \approx 0.11$ fm$^{-3}$ rather than at saturation density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-07-02 Zhen Zhang , Lie-Wen Chen

It is well known that the equation of state (EoS) of compact objects like neutron and quark stars is not determined despite there are several sophisticated models to describe it. From the electromagnetic observations, summarized in…

The constituents of cold dense matter are still far from being understood. However, neutron star observations such as the recently observed pulsar PSR J1614-2230 with a mass of 1.97+/-0.04 M_solar help to considerably constrain the hadronic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-30 Simon Weissenborn , Debarati Chatterjee , Juergen Schaffner-Bielich

The microscopic composition and properties of matter at super-saturation densities have been the subject of intense investigation for decades. The scarcity of experimental and observational data has lead to the necessary reliance on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. R. Stone

Multimessenger signals from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are promising tools to infer the largely unknown properties of nuclear matter at densities that are presently inaccessible to laboratory experiments. The gravitational waves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-17 Christian Ecker , Tyler Gorda , Aleksi Kurkela , Luciano Rezzolla