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The Physical origin of the nuclear symmetry energy is studied within the relativistic mean field (RMF) theory. Based on the nuclear binding energies calculated with and without mean isovector potential for several isobaric chains we conform…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Shufang Ban , Jie Meng , Wojciech Satula , Ramon A. Wyss

Both simple and sophisticated models are frequently used in an attempt to understand how real nuclei breakup when subjected to large excitation energies, a process known as nuclear multifragmentation. Many of these models assume…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 J. B. Elliott , A. S. Hirsch

The thermal evolution of the energies and free energies of a set of spherical and near-spherical nuclei spanning the whole periodic table are calculated in the subtracted finite-temperature Thomas- Fermi framework with the zero-range…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 J. N. De , S. K. Samaddar , B. K. Agrawal

The nuclear symmetry energy calculated in the RPA from the pairing plus symmetry force Hamiltonian with equidistant single-nucleon levels is for mass number A=48 approximately proportional to T(T+1.025), where T is the isospin quantum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Kai Neergård

We calculate the symmetry energy of the nuclear matter by using the bottom-up approach, so called hard wall model. To consider the nuclear matter, we introduce the isospin for u- and d-quarks. We find that in the hard wall model, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Chanyong Park

An alternative approach to symmetry restoration within Energy Density Functional, the Symmetry-Conserving EDF is discussed. In this approach, the energy is directly written in terms of the degrees of freedom encoded in the one-, two-...…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Guillaume Hupin , Denis Lacroix

A method is proposed for the experimental measurement of neutron separation energies for nuclei far from stability. The procedure is based on determining cross sections for the production of nuclei, by projectile fragmentation, for which…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 W. A. Friedman , M. B. Tsang

The nuclear symmetry energy is defined by the second derivative of the energy per nucleon with respect to the proton-neutron asymmetry, and is sometimes approximated by the energy difference between the neutron matter and the symmetric…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-24 Y. Tsukioka , H. Nakada

The mass-dependent symmetry energy coefficients $a_{sym}(A)$ has been extracted by analysing the heavy nuclear mass differences reducing the uncertainties as far as possible in our previous work. Taking advantage of the obtained symmetry…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-08 Xiaohua Fan , Jianmin Dong , Wei Zuo

Energy level splitting from the unitary limit of contact interactions to the near unitary limit for a few identical atoms in an effectively one-dimensional well can be understood as an example of symmetry breaking. At the unitary limit in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-27 N. L. Harshman

Using covariance analysis, we quantify the correlations between the interaction parameters in a transport model and the observables commonly used to extract information of the Equation of State of Asymmetric Nuclear Matter in experiments.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Yingxun Zhang , M. B. Tsang , Zhuxia Li

Symmetry energy is a key quantity in the study of the equation of state of asymmetric nuclear matter. Heavy ion collisions at low and intermediate energies, performed at Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro and Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, can…

To make a statement about the nature and mechanism of fragmentation, it is necessary to probe directly any competition, or lack thereof, between the emission of various particle species as a function of excitation energy. The task is then…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Beaulieu , L. Phair , L. G. Moretto , G. J. Wozniak

We present the temperature and density dependence of symmetry energy for nuclear matter at finite temperature based on the approach of the thermodynamics with Skyrme energy density functional. We first classify the Skyrme interactions into…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Li Ou , Zhuxia Li , Yingxun Zhang , Min Liu

The projectile fragmentation reactions using $^{58}Ni$ $\&$ $^{64}Ni$ beams at 140 MeV/n on targets$^{9}Be$ $\&$ $^{181}Ta$ are studied using the canonical thermodynamical model coupled with an evaporation code. The isoscaling property of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-01-17 Gargi Chaudhuri , Swagata Mallik

We calculate the nucleon self-energies in isospin-asymmetric nuclear matter using QCD sum rules. Taking the difference of these for the neutron and proton enables us to express the potential part of the nuclear symmetry energy in terms of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-20 Kie Sang Jeong , Su Houng Lee

The energy distribution in the most general nonstatic spherically symmetric space-time is obtained using M{\o}ller's energy-momentum complex. This result is compared with the energy expression obtained by using the energy-momentum complex…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. S. Xulu

In this paper, I qualitatively discuss the matter formed in the fragmentation region of nuclear collisions at the highest energies. I argue that although the initial temperature and baryon number density can become very large, the ratio of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-07 Larry McLerran

We develop an improved Statistical Multifragmentation Model that provides the capability to calculate calorimetric and isotopic observables with precision. With this new model we examine the influence of nuclear isospin on the fragment…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 W. P. Tan , S. R. Souza , R. J. Charity , R. Donangelo , W. G. Lynch , M. B. Tsang

We study the correlation between balance energy and transition energy of fragment in heavy-ion collisions for different systems at incident energies between 40 and 1200 MeV/nucleon using an isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-11-08 Rajni , Suneel Kumar , Rajeev K. Puri