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We compute the mixed phase of nuclear matter and 2SC matter for different temperatures and proton fractions. After showing that the symmetry energy of the 2SC phase is, to a good approximation, three times larger than the one of the normal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 G. Pagliara , J. Schaffner-Bielich

Thermodynamical properties of the nuclear matter at sub-saturation densities were investigated using a simple van der Waals-like equation of state with an additional term representing the symmetry energy. First-order isospin-asymmetric…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Veselsky

The symmetry energy expansion was developed to connect isospin symmetric matter probed in nuclear experiments to asymmetric matter found in neutron stars. Using the isospin asymmetry derived from the Gell-Mann-Nishijima formula, we derive…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-29 Isabella Danhoni , Yumu Yang , Mauricio Hippert , Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler

The symmetry energy characterizes the isospin dependent part of the equation of state of isospin asymmetric strong interaction matter and it plays a critical role in many issues of nuclear physics and astrophysics. In this talk, we briefly…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-16 Lie-Wen Chen

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

The symmetry energy of nuclear matter is a fundamental ingredient in the investigation of exotic nuclei, heavy-ion collisions and astrophysical phenomena. New data from heavy-ion collisions can be used to extract the free symmetry energy…

Symmetry energy is an important part of the equation of state of isospin asymmetry matter. However, the huge uncertainties of symmetry energy remain at suprasaturation densities, where the phase transitions of strongly interacting matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-11 He Liu , Jun Xu , Peng-Cheng Chu

The quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram at large densities and low temperatures can be probed using both neutron stars and low-energy heavy-ion collisions. Heavy-ion collisions are nearly isospin-symmetric systems, whereas neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Yumu Yang , Nikolas Cruz Camacho , Mauricio Hippert , Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler

The density dependence of the symmetry energy in the equation of state of isospin asymmetric nuclear matter is studied using the isoscaling of the fragment yields and the antisymmetrized molecular dynamic calculation. It is observed that…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 D. V. Shetty , S. J. Yennello , G. A. Souliotis

The phase transition of hadronic to quark matter at high baryon and isospin density is analyzed. Relativistic mean field models are used to describe hadronic matter, and the MIT bag model is adopted for quark matter. The boundaries of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-02-28 M. Di Toro , B. Liu , V. Greco , V. Baran , M. Colonna , S. Plumari

We study the trend of the nuclear symmetry energy in relativistic mean-field models with appearance of the hyperon and quark degrees of freedom at high densities. On the pure hadron level, we focus on the role of $\Lambda$ hyperons in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Wei-Zhou Jiang , Rong-Yao Yang , Dong-Rui Zhang

We investigate the density behaviour of the symmetry energy with respect to isospin equilibration in the combined systems $Ru(Zr)+Zr(Ru)$ at relativistic energies of 0.4 and $1.528 AGeV$. The study is performed within a relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Gaitanos , M. Colonna , M. Di Toro , H. H. Wolter

The symmetry energy of nuclear matter is a fundamental ingredient in the investigation of exotic nuclei, heavy-ion collisions and astrophysical phenomena. A recently developed quantum statistical (QS) approach that takes the formation of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-18 K. Hagel , J. B. Natowitz , G. Röpke

A study of properties of the symmetry energy of nuclei is presented based on density functional theory. Calculations for finite nuclei are given so that the study includes isospin dependent surface symmetry considerations as well as isospin…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-01-28 S. J. Lee , A. Z. Mekjian

Isoscaling behavior of the statistical emission fragments from the equilibrated sources with $Z$ = 30 and $N$ = 30, 33, 36 and 39, resepectively, is investigated in the framework of isospin dependent lattice gas model. The dependences of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Q. M. Su , Y. G. Ma , W. D. Tian , D. Q. Fang , X. Z. Cai , K. Wang

The present study deals with the extraction of the symmetry energy from heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies. Using the isospin quantum molecular dynamical (IQMD) model, the dependence of the sum of the charge number for fragments…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-12-04 S. Kumar , Y. G. Ma

We investigate the density dependence of the symmetry energy in a relativistic description by decomposing the iso-vector mean field into contributions with different Lorentz properties. We find important effects of the iso-vector, scalar…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Gaitanos , M. Di Toro , G. Ferini , M. Colonna , H. H. Wolter

Within a self-consistent thermal model using an isospin and momentum dependent interaction (MDI) constrained by the isospin diffusion data in heavy-ion collisions, we investigate the temperature dependence of the symmetry energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jun Xu , Lie-Wen Chen , Bao-An Li , Hong-Ru Ma

We report a measurement of the condensation energy of a two-component Fermi gas with tunable interactions. From the equation of state of the gas, we infer the properties of the normal phase in the zero-temperature limit. By comparing the…

Determination of the high density behavior of the symmetry energy through the simultaneous measurement of elliptic flow excitation functions of neutrons, protons and light clusters is proposed. The elliptic flow developed in relativistic…

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