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A density dependent relativistic mean-field model is determined to reproduce the components of the nucleon self-energy at low densities. This model is used to investigate spinodal instabilities in isospin asymmetric nuclear matter at finite…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-02-25 E. N. E. van Dalen , H. Müther

The nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) inelastic cross section plays an important role in constraining the nuclear equation of state at high baryon density and in describing the formation and evolution of compact astrophysical objects. In this study,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-13 Manzi Nan , Pengcheng Li , Guojun Wei , Xilong Xiang , Wei Zuo , Qingfeng Li

We use a chiral SU(3) quark mean field model to study the properties of nuclear systems at finite temperature. The liquid-gas phase transition of symmetric and asymmetric nuclear matter is discussed. For two formulations of the model the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-02-17 P. Wang , D. B. Leinweber , A. W. Thomas , A. G. Williams

This study presents a systematic investigation of the effects of isospin, including both T=0 and T=/0 components, on nucleon pairing correlations in fp-shell nuclei. To this aim, the interacting boson model-4, which explicitly incorporates…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Hossein Emami , Hadi Sabri

We study nuclear symmetry energy and the thermodynamic instabilities of asymmetric nuclear matter in a self-consistent manner by using a modified quark-meson coupling model where the confining interaction for quarks inside a nucleon is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-12-16 R. N. Mishra , H. S. Sahoo , P. K. Panda , N. Barik , T. Frederico

The effects of nuclear isospin asymmetry on $\alpha$ decay lifetimes of heavy nuclei are investigated within various phenomenological models of nuclear potential for the $\alpha$ particle. We consider the widely used simple square well…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-20 Eunkyoung Shin , Yeunhwan Lim , Chang Ho Hyun , Yongseok Oh

Role of the isospin asymmetry in nuclei and neutron stars, with an emphasis on the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy, is discussed. The symmetry energy is obtained using the isoscalar as well as isovector components of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 D. N. Basu , Tapan Mukhopadhyay

In the study of $\alpha$ decay within the superheavy nuclear region ($Z \geq 90$ and $N \geq 140$), the $\alpha$-particle preformation probability $P_{\alpha}$ serves as a crucial physical quantity linking nuclear structure to decay…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 Xiao-Yan Zhu , Hao Zhang , Wei Gao , Wen-Jing Xing , Wen-Bin Lin , Xiao-Hua Li

Isoscalar and isovector particle densities are derived analytically by using the approximation of a sharp edged nucleus within the local energy density approach with the proton-neutron asymmetry and spin-orbit effects. Equations for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-05-29 A. G. Magner , A. I. Sanzhur , A. M. Gzhebinsky

We explore the thermal properties of hot and dense matter using a model that reproduces the empirical properties of isospin symmetric and asymmetric bulk nuclear matter, optical model fits to nucleon-nucleus scattering data, heavy-ion flow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 Constantinos Constantinou , Brian Muccioli , Madappa Prakash , James M. Lattimer

We investigate the $^1S_0$ neutron and proton superfluidity in isospin asymmetric nuclear matter. We have concentrated on the isospin dependence of the pairing gaps and the effect of a microscopic three-body force. It is found that as the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Zuo , G. C. Lu

The nuclear symmetry energy represents a response to the neutron-proton asymmetry. In this survey we discuss various aspects of symmetry energy in the framework of nuclear density functional theory, considering both non-relativistic and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-08-07 W. Nazarewicz , P. -G. Reinhard , W. Satula , D. Vretenar

The energy of a free gas of neutrons and protons is well known to be approximately isospin parabolic with a negligibly small quartic term of only $0.45$ MeV at the saturation density of nuclear matter $\rho_0=0.16/\rm{fm}^3$. Using an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-07-08 Bao-Jun Cai , Bao-An Li

We propose a semi-empirical nuclear mass formula based on the macroscopic-microscopic method in which the isospin and mass dependence of model parameters are investigated with the Skyrme energy density functional. The number of model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-05-12 Ning Wang , Min Liu , Xizhen Wu

We have demonstrated that the isospin of nuclei influences the fragment production during the nuclear liquid-gas phase transition. Calculations for Au197, Sn124, La124 and Kr78 at various excitation energies were carried out on the basis of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 N. Buyukcizmeci , R. Ogul , A. S. Botvina

We have demonstrated that the isospin of nuclei influences the fragment production during the nuclear liquid-gas phase transition. Calculations for Au197, Sn124, La124 and Kr78 at various excitation energies were carried out on the basis of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 N. Buyukcizmeci , R. Ogul , A. S. Botvina

The nuclear symmetry energy, which describes the energy difference of per proton and neutron in nuclear matter, has been extensively studied within the last two decades. Around saturation density, both the value and the slope of the nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-21 Gao-Chan Yong , Ya-Fei Guo

With the effective chiral model, the finite temperature properties of nuclear matter have been studied at different temperatures. For symmetric nuclear matter, I particularly focused on the possibility of liquid-gas phase transition at low…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-22 Debashree Sen

The liquid-gas phase transition in hot asymmetric nuclear matter is studied within density-dependent relativistic mean-field models where the density dependence is introduced according to the Brown-Rho scaling and constrained by available…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-04-04 Guang-Hua Zhang , Wei-Zhou Jiang

Correlations between the thickness of the neutron skin in finite nuclei and the nuclear matter symmetry energy are studied in the Skyrme Hartree-Fock model. From the most recent analysis of the isospin diffusion data in heavy-ion collisions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Lie-Wen Chen , Che Ming Ko , Bao-An Li