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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

Equation of state (EOS) of pure neutron matter (PNM) is studied in QCD sum rules (QCDSR). It is found that the QCDSR results on EOS of PNM are in good agreement with predictions by current advanced microscopic many-body theories. Moreover,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-05-30 Bao-Jun Cai , Lie-Wen Chen

A statistical model for the equation of state (EOS) and the composition of supernova matter is presented with focus on the liquid-gas phase transition of nuclear matter. It consists of an ensemble of nuclei and interacting nucleons in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-11-27 Matthias Hempel , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

We apply the similarity renormalization group (SRG) approach to evolve a nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) interaction in leading-order (LO) chiral effective field theory (ChEFT), renormalized within the framework of the subtracted kernel method…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-26 V. S. Timoteo , S. Szpigel , F. O. Duraes

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

A new framework for computing the Similarity Renormalization Group (SRG) evolution of three-nucleon forces (3NF) in momentum representation is presented. The use of antisymmetric three-particle hyperspherical momentum states ensures unitary…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-06-26 Kyle A. Wendt

We propose a novel storage scheme for three-nucleon (3N) interaction matrix elements relevant for the normal-ordered two-body approximation used extensively in ab initio calculations of atomic nuclei. This scheme reduces the required memory…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-04 T. Miyagi , S. R. Stroberg , P. Navrátil , K. Hebeler , J. D. Holt

The equation of state (EOS) of dense matter is an essential ingredient for numerical simulations of core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. The properties of matter near and above nuclear saturation density are uncertain, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-13 Andre da Silva Schneider , Luke F. Roberts , Christian D. Ott

We present predictions for the neutron matter equation of state, from leading to fourth order of chiral effective field theory, using recently developed, accurate chiral nucleon-nucleon potentials. We find the impact of subleading…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-15 Francesca Sammarruca , Randy Millerson

An equation of state (EOS) of neutron star matter, describing both the neutron star crust and the liquid core, is calculated. It is based on the effective nuclear interaction SLy of the Skyrme type, which is particularly suitable for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Douchin , P. Haensel

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 present an updated general purpose nuclear equation of state (EoS) for use in simulations of core-collapse supernovae, neutron star mergers and black hole collapse. This EoS is formulated in the context of Density Functional Theory (DFT)…

We study the zero temperature BCS gaps for the triplet channel in pure neutron matter using Similarity Renormalization Group (SRG) evolved interactions. We use the dependence of the results on the SRG resolution scale, as a tool to analyze…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-07 Sarath Srinivas , S. Ramanan

Multi-messenger observations of neutron stars (NSs) and their mergers have placed strong constraints on the dense-matter equation of state (EOS). The EOS, in turn, depends on microscopic nuclear interactions that are described by nuclear…

We investigate the influence of the effective nucleon mass on the equation of state (EOS), which is constructed for simulations of core-collapse supernovae and binary neutron star mergers, within the relativistic mean-field (RMF) framework.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-19 Shuying Li , Junbo Pang , Hong Shen , Jinniu Hu , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi

Homogeneous nuclear matter is investigated using the \textit{ab initio} Self-consistent Green's function (SCGF) approach with nuclear interactions based on chiral effective field theory. The employed method, which combines the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-13 Francesco Marino , Carlo Barbieri , Gianluca Colò , Weiguang Jiang , Samuel J. Novario

Neutron matter presents a unique system for chiral effective field theory (EFT), because all many-body forces among neutrons are predicted to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3LO). We present the first complete N3LO calculation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-02-05 I. Tews , T. Krueger , K. Hebeler , A. Schwenk

The equation of state of symmetric nuclear matter has been investigated within Brueckner approach adopting the charge-dependent Argonne $V_{18}$ two-body force plus a microscopic three-body force based on a meson-exchange model. The effects…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 W. Zuo , A. Lejeune , U. Lombardo , J. F. Mathiot

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

The properties of dilute neutron matter are mostly determined by the s-wave two-body (2N) interaction, while three-body (3N) interactions are suppressed by the Pauli principle. In a previous work, we showed that it can be advantageous to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-18 Viswanathan Palaniappan , S. Ramanan , Michael Urban