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Recent laboratory experiments have measured fusion cross sections at center-of-mass energies low enough for the effects of atomic and molecular electrons to be important. To extract the cross section for bare nuclei from these data (as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 T. D. Shoppa , M. Jeng , S. E. Koonin , K. Langanke , R. Seki

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 examine the influence of the density dependence of the symmetry energy on several properties of neutron stars. In particular, we study the constraints set on the nuclear matter equation of state by the values of the tidal deformability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Constança Providência

Matter in neutron star cores reaches extremely high densities, forming states of matter that cannot be generated in the laboratory. The Equation of State (EOS) of the matter links to macroscopic observables, such as mass M and radius R, via…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Anna L. Watts

Neutron-star radii provide useful information on the equation of state of neutron rich matter. Particularly interesting is the density dependence of the equation of state (EOS). For example, the softening of the EOS at high density, where…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Carriere , C. J. Horowitz , J. Piekarewicz

We present calculations of quasiequilibrium sequences of irrotational binary neutron stars based on realistic equations of state (EOS) for the whole neutron star interior. Three realistic nuclear EOSs of various softness and based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-30 M. Bejger , D. Gondek-Rosinska , E. Gourgoulhon , P. Haensel , K. Taniguchi , J. L. Zdunik

We estimate the nuclear fusion rates for the transition OH-->F from the ground and excited molecular states and also consider effect of screening of electric charges of nuclei by bound electrons in the case of colliding atoms O and H. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. B. Belyaev , D. V. Naumov , F. M. Penkov

The KIDS framework for the nuclear equation of state (EoS) and energy density functional (EDF) offers the possibility to explore systematically the effect of EoS parameters on predictions for a variety of observables. The EoS parameters can…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Panagiota Papakonstantinou

We study radial oscillations in non-rotating neutron stars by considering the unified equation of states (EoSs), which support the 2 M$_\odot$ star criterion. We solve the Sturm-Liouville problem to compute 20 lowest radial oscillation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-29 Souhardya Sen , Shubham Kumar , Athul Kunjipurayi , Pinku Routaray , Tianqi Zhao , Bharat Kumar

The impact of electron-capture (EC) cross sections on neutron-rich nuclei on the dynamics of core-collapse during infall and early post-bounce is studied performing spherically symmetric simulations in general relativity using a multigroup…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-22 Aurélien Pascal , Simon Giraud , Anthea Fantina , Francesca Gulminelli , Jerome Novak , Micaela Oertel , Adriana Raduta

Understanding the equation of state (EOS) of neutron stars (NSs) is a fundamental challenge in astrophysics and nuclear physics. A first-order phase transition (FOPT) at high densities could lead to the formation of a quark core,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-11 Zuhua Ji , Jiarui Chen

We consider how superfluidity of dripped neutrons in the crust of a neutron star affects the frequencies of the crust's fundamental torsional oscillations. A nonnegligible superfluid part of dripped neutrons, which do not comove with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Hajime Sotani , Ken'ichiro Nakazato , Kei Iida , Kazuhiro Oyamatsu

We explore the consequences of imposing robust thermodynamic constraints arising from perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) when inferring the dense-matter equation-of-state (EOS). We find that the termination density, up to which the…

We study the effects of isovector-scalar meson $\delta$ on the equation of state (EOS) of neutron star matter in strong magnetic fields. The EOS of neutron-star matter and nucleon effective masses are calculated in the framework of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 F. X. Wei , G. J. Mao , C. M. Ko , L. S. Kisslinger , H. Stoecker , W. Greiner

We perform a systematic analysis of neutron star radius constraints from five quiescent low-mass X-ray binaries and examine how they depend on measurements of their distances and amounts of intervening absorbing material, as well as their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-20 James M. Lattimer , Andrew W. Steiner

The determination of the equation of state (EOS) for nuclear matter has been one of the biggest problems in nuclear astrophysics, because the EOS is essential for determining the properties of neutron stars. To constrain the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-27 Hajime Sotani , Nobuya Nishimura , Tomoya Naito

The determination of the equation of state (EOS) of a neutron star (NS) and its maximum mass is very important for understanding the formation and properties of NSs under extreme conditions, but they remain open questions. Short-duration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-25 Jun-Xiang Huang , Hou-Jun Lü , En-Wei Liang

The neutron star maximum mass and the radius are investigated within the framework of the relativistic mean-field (RMF) model. The variation in the radius at the canonical mass, $R_{1.4}$, using different inner crust equation of state (EoS)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-03-19 Ishfaq Ahmad Rather , Anisul Ain Usmani , Suresh Kumar Patra

We investigate the rotational properties of self-bound strange quark stars using two representative quark matter equations of state (EOS): the vector MIT bag model and the density-dependent quark mass (DDQM) model. Through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-08 Adamu Issifu , Andreas Konstantinou , Franciele M. da Silva , Tobias Frederico

We perform a joint Bayesian inference of neutron-star mass and radius constraints based on GW170817, observations of quiescent low-mass X-ray binaries (QLMXBs), photospheric radius expansion X-ray bursts (PREs), and X-ray timing…