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The equation of state (EOS) of dense nuclear matter is a key factor to determine the internal structure and properties of neutron stars. However, the EOS of high-density nuclear matter has great uncertainty mainly because the terrestrial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-27 Zehan Wu , Dehua Wen

The equation of state (EOS) for neutron stars is modeled using the Relativistic Mean Field (RMF) approach with a mesonic nonlinear (NL) interaction, a modified sigma cut potential (NL-$\sigma$ cut), and the influences of dark matter in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-21 Prashant Thakur , Tuhin Malik , Arpan Das , T. K. Jha , B. K. Sharma , Constança Providência

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

A new scheme for testing the nuclear matter (NM) equation of state (EoS) at high densities using constraints from compact star (CS) phenomenology is applied to neutron stars with a core of deconfined quark matter (QM). An acceptable EoS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Grigorian , D. Blaschke , T. Klahn

This thesis investigates the impact of dark matter on neutron star properties, focusing on mass, radius, and tidal deformability. Using two-fluid and single-fluid models, dark matter is incorporated into the equation of state (EOS) via a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-25 Prashant Thakur

There is a degeneracy between the equation of state (EOS) of superdense neutron-rich nuclear matter and the strong-field gravity in understanding properties of neutron stars. While the EOS is still poorly known, there are also longstanding…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-30 Xiao-Tao He , F. J. Fattoyev , Bao-An Li , W. G. Newton

Through continuous progress in nuclear theory and experiment and an increasing number of neutron-star observations, a multitude of information about the equation of state (EOS) for matter at extreme densities is available. To constrain the…

The isospin dependence of in-medium nuclear effective interactions is a fundamental issue in nuclear physics and has broad ramifications in astrophysics. Its uncertainties, especially the difference of neutron-proton interactions in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-06-15 Bao-An Li , Bao-Jun Cai , Lie-Wen Chen , Wen-Jie Xie , Jun Xu , Nai-Bo Zhang

In this review article we discuss selected developments regarding the role of the equation of state (EOS) in simulations of core-collapse supernovae. There are no first-principle calculations of the state of matter under supernova…

Twin stars-two stable neutron stars (NSs) with the same mass but different radii have long been proposed to appear as a consequence of a possible first-order phase transition in NS matter. Within a meta-model for the EOS of hybrid stars, we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-13 Nai-Bo Zhang , Bao-An Li

We construct the equation of state (EOS) of nuclear matter using the relativistic mean field (RMF) theory in the wide density, temperature range with various proton fractions for the use of supernova simulation and the neutron star…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Shen , H. Toki , K. Oyamatsu , K. Sumiyoshi

Understanding how matter behaves at the highest densities and temperatures is a major open problem in both nuclear physics and relativistic astrophysics. This physics is often encapsulated in the so-called high-temperature nuclear equation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Mikhail M. Meskhi , Noah E. Wolfe , Zhenyu Dai , Carla Frohlich , Jonah M. Miller , Raymond K. W. Wong , Ricardo Vilalta

The cold, dense matter equation of state (EoS) determines crucial global properties of neutron stars (NSs), including the mass, radius and tidal deformability. However, a one-dimensional (1D), cold, and $\beta$-equilibrated EoS is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-10 Zhenyu Zhu , Shuai Zha , Sophia Han

We study the effects of nuclear symmetry energy on the mass-radius relation and tidal deformability of neutron stars, considering the self-consistency of the equation of state (EOS). We first construct a set of unified EOSs based on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-15 Fan Ji , Jinniu Hu , Shishao Bao , Hong Shen

A new scheme for testing the nuclear matter (NM) equation of state (EoS) at high densities using constraints from compact star (CS) phenomenology is applied to neutron stars with a core of deconfined quark matter (QM). An acceptable EoS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Grigorian , D. Blaschke , T. Klaehn

Recent analyses of several isospin effects in heavy-ion reactions have allowed us to constrain the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy at sub-saturation densities within a narrow range. Combined with constraints on the Equation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-06-24 Bao-An Li , Lie-Wen Chen , Che Ming Ko , Plamen G. Krastev , Aaron Worley

We investigate properties of nuclear matter, equation of state (EOS) of neutron stars and its mass-radius relation in a hard-wall AdS/QCD model by regarding baryons as solitonic configurations in gauge fields. Compared with previous…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-07 Jun-Shuai Wang , Li-Kang Yang , Yin-Fang Liu , Yong-Liang Ma

The equation of state (EOS) for nuclear and neutron rich matter is investigated in a Relativistic Mean Field (RMF) model. New shell states are found that minimize the free energy per baryon, calculated in a spherical Wigner-Seitz (WS)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. J. Horowitz , G. Shen

Measurements of neutron star mass and radius or tidal deformability deliver unique insight into the equation of state (EOS) of cold dense matter. EOS inference is very often done using generalized parametric or non-parametric models which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-25 Chun Huang , Geert Raaijmakers , Anna L. Watts , Laura Tolos , Constança Providência

Core-collapse simulations of massive stars are performed using the equation of state (EOS) based on the microscopic variational calculation with realistic nuclear forces. The progenitor models with the initial masses of $15M_\odot$,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Ken'ichiro Nakazato , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Hajime Togashi