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Taking into account the terrestrial experiments and the recent astrophysical observations of neutron stars and gravitational-wave signals, we impose restrictions on the equation of state (EoS) for isospin-asymmetric nuclear matter. Using…

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Properties and structure of neutron stars are determined by the equation of state (EOS) of neutron-rich stellar matter. While the collective flow and particle production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions have constrained tightly the EOS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-22 Aaron Worley , Plamen G. Krastev , Bao-An Li

We show how observations of gravitational waves from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers over the next few years can be combined with insights from nuclear physics to obtain useful constraints on the equation of state (EoS) of dense matter,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-23 Michael McNeil Forbes , Sukanta Bose , Sanjay Reddy , Dake Zhou , Arunava Mukherjee , Soumi De

We construct an efficient parameterization of the pure neutron-matter equation of state (EoS) that incorporates the uncertainties from both chiral effective field theory ($\chi$EFT) and phenomenological potential calculations. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-26 Praveer Tiwari , Dake Zhou , Bhaskar Biswas , Michael McNeil Forbes , Sukanta Bose

In this contribution nuclear constraints on the equation of state for a neutron star are discussed. A combined fit to nuclear masses and charge radii leads to improved values for the symmetry energy and its derivative at nuclear saturation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. E. L. Dieperink , C. Korpa

The equations of state (EoSs) governing neutron star (NS) matter obtained for both non-relativistic and relativistic mean-field models are systematically confronted with a diverse set of terrestrial data and astrophysical observations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-05-20 Sk Md Adil Imam , Tuhin Malik , Constança Providência , B. K. Agrawal

The structure and composition of the inner crust of neutron stars, as well as global stellar properties such as radius and moment of inertia, have been shown to correlate with parameters characterizing the symmetry energy of nuclear matter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-12 William G. Newton , Michael Gearheart , Josh Hooker , Bao-An Li

Accurate modeling of the neutron star crust is essential for interpreting multimessenger observations and constraining the nuclear equation of state (EoS). However, standard phenomenological EoS models often rely on heuristic extrapolations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-14 S. Burrello , F. Gulminelli , M. Antonelli , M. Colonna , A. Fantina

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…

Based on the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock model (SHF) as well as its extension (the Korea-IBS-Daegu-SKKU (KIDS) model) and the relativistic mean-field (RMF) model, we have studied the constraints on the parameters of the nuclear matter equation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 Jia Zhou , Jun Xu , Panagiota Papakonstantinou

A new scheme for testing nuclear matter equations of state (EsoS) at high densities using constraints from neutron star phenomenology and a flow data analysis of heavy-ion collisions is suggested. An acceptable EoS shall not allow the…

We show that the gravitational binding energy of a neutron star of a given mass is correlated with the slope of the nuclear symmetry energy at 1-2 times nuclear saturation density for equations of state without significant softening (i.e.,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-11 W. G. Newton , Bao-an Li

We introduce a parameterized high-density equation of state (EOS) in order to systematize the study of constraints placed by astrophysical observations on the nature of neutron-star matter. To obtain useful constraints, the number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Jocelyn S. Read , Benjamin D. Lackey , Benjamin J. Owen , John L. Friedman

Over the past decade, an abundance of information from neutron-star observations, nuclear experiments and theory has transformed our efforts to elucidate the properties of dense matter. However, at high densities relevant to the cores of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-10 Sunny Ng , Isaac Legred , Lami Suleiman , Philippe Landry , Lyla Traylor , Jocelyn Read

The nuclear matter parameters define the nuclear equation of state (EoS), they appear as coefficients of expansion around the saturation density of symmetric and asymmetric nuclear matter. We review their correlations with several…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 B. K. Agrawal , Tuhin Malik , J. N. De , S. K. Samaddar

The composition and properties of infinite nuclear matter under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure remain incompletely understood. In this work, we constrain the equation of state (EoS) of nuclear matter - constructed within the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-04 Rahul Kumar , Prasanta Char , Rana Nandi

We explore the density variation of the correlation coefficient of the key parameters of the nuclear equation of state (EoS) with the bulk and crustal properties of neutron stars. The analysis was performed using two diverse sets of nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-26 Naosad Alam , Subrata Pal

Based on the distribution of tidal deformabilities and component masses of binary neutron star merger GW170817, the parametric equation of states (EOS) are employed to probe the nuclear symmetry energy and the properties of neutron star. To…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-22 Yuxi Li , Houyuan Chen , Dehua Wen , Jing Zhang

The impacts of various symmetry energy parameters on the properties of neutron stars (NSs) have been recently investigated, and the outcomes are at variance, as summarized in Table III of Phys. Rev. D 106, 063005 (2022). We have…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-19 N. K. Patra , Anagh Venneti , Sk Md Adil Imam , Arunava Mukherjee , B. K. Agrawal

The nuclear symmetry energy is intimately connected with nuclear astrophysics. This contribution focuses on the estimation of the symmetry energy from experiment and how it is related to the structure of neutron stars. The most important…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-03-06 James M. Lattimer , Andrew W. Steiner
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