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The incompressibility $K$ of symmetric nuclear matter (SNM) is determined through a Bayesian analysis of collective flow data from Au + Au collisions at beam energies $E = 400 -1500$ MeV/nucleon. This analysis utilizes a Gaussian process…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-05 J. M. Wang , X. G. Deng , W. J. Xie , B. A. Li , Y. G. Ma

An equation of state (EoS) for symmetric nuclear matter is constructed using the density dependent M3Y effective interaction and extended for isospin asymmetric nuclear matter. Theoretically obtained values of symmetric nuclear matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-04-23 D. N. Basu , Partha Roy Chowdhury , Abhishek Mishra

Low-mass neutron stars are directly associated with the nuclear saturation parameters because their central density is definitely low. We have already found a suitable combination of nuclear saturation parameters for expressing the neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-16 Hajime Sotani , Shinsuke Ota

We explore the density variation of the correlation coefficient of the key parameters of the nuclear equation of state (EoS) with the bulk and crustal properties of neutron stars. The analysis was performed using two diverse sets of nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-26 Naosad Alam , Subrata Pal

From experimental observations of limiting temperatures in heavy ion collisions we derive Tc, the critical temperature of infinite nuclear matter. The critical temperature is 16.6 +- 0.86 MeV. Theoretical model correlations between Tc, the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 J. B. Natowitz , K. Hagel , Y. Ma , M. Murray , L. Qin , R. Wada , J. Wang

New observational data of neutron stars since GW170817 have helped improve our knowledge about nuclear symmetry energy especially at high densities. We have learned particularly: (1) The slope parameter $L$ of nuclear symmetry energy at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-06-08 Bao-An Li , Bao-Jun Cai , Wen-Jie Xie , Nai-Bo Zhang

Energy in nuclear matter is, in practice, completely characterized at different densities and asymmetries, when the density dependencies of symmetry energy and of energy of symmetric matter are specified. The density dependence of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Pawel Danielewicz , Jenny Lee

We show that the neutron skin thickness $\Delta r_{np}$ of heavy nuclei is uniquely fixed by the symmetry energy density slope $L({\rho})$ at a subsaturation cross density $\rho_c \approx 0.11$ fm$^{-3}$ rather than at saturation density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-07-02 Zhen Zhang , Lie-Wen Chen

The nuclear matter parameters define the nuclear equation of state (EoS), they appear as coefficients of expansion around the saturation density of symmetric and asymmetric nuclear matter. We review their correlations with several…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 B. K. Agrawal , Tuhin Malik , J. N. De , S. K. Samaddar

A recently proposed density-dependent van der Waals model, with only $4$ free parameters adjusted to fix binding energy, saturation density, symmetry energy, and incompressibility, is analyzed under symmetric and asymmetric nuclear matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-02-07 M. Dutra , B. M. Santos , O. Lourenço

One of the major uncertainties in the dense matter equation of state has been the nuclear symmetry energy. The density dependence of the symmetry energy is important in nuclear astrophysics, as it controls the neutronization of matter in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-01 James M. Lattimer , Yeunhwan Lim

Constraints on the Equation of State for symmetric matter (equal neutron and proton numbers) have been extracted from energetic collisions of heavy ions over a range of energies. Collisions of neutron-deficient and neutron-rich heavy ions…

We calculate the momentum dependence of the $\rho$-meson selfenergy based on the dispersion relation for the $\rho N$ scattering amplitude $f(\omega$) at low nuclear density. The imaginary part of $f(\omega)$ is determined from the optical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 L. A. Kondratyuk , A. Sibirtsev , W. Cassing , Ye. S. Golubeva , M. Effenberger

In the $\sigma$-$\omega$-$\rho$ model of the relativistic mean field theory with nonlinear $\sigma$-meson self-interaction, the effective nucleon mass $M^*$ is discussed with relation to the symmetry incompressibility $K_s$ of nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 K. C. Chung , C. S. Wang , A. J. Santiago , J. W. Zhang

Differences in the density dependence of the symmetry energy predicted by nonrelativistic and relativistic models are suggested, at least in part, as the culprit for the discrepancy in the values of the compression modulus of symmetric…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Piekarewicz

The nuclear symmetry energy (E_sym(\roh)) is a vital ingredient of our understanding of many processes, from heavy-ion collisions to neutron stars structure. While the total nuclear symmetry energy at nuclear saturation density (\rho_0) is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-02-09 Or Hen , Bao-An Li , Wen-Jun Guo , L. B. Weinstein , Eli Piasetzky

We use a finite range simple effective interaction to construct nuclear equations of state for the study of the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy. The EoSs provide good descriptions of the nuclear symmetry energy at a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-01 D. Behera , S. K. Tripathy , T. R. Routray , B. Behera

A density dependent M3Y effective nucleon-nucleon (NN) interaction which was based on the G-matrix elements of the Reid-Elliott NN potential has been used to determine the incompressibity of infinite nuclear matter. The nuclear interaction…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 D. N. Basu

What can we learn about the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy $E_{\rm{sym}}(\rho )$ from precise measurements of the radius ($R_{\rm{1.4}}$) and/or tidal polarizability ($\Lambda_{1.4}$) of canonical neutron stars (NSs) with a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-28 Nai-Bo Zhang , Bao-An Li

The density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy remains poorly constrained. Starting from precise empirical values of the nuclear volume and surface symmetry energy coefficients and the nuclear saturation density, we show how in the ambit…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 B. K. Agrawal , J. N. De , S. K. Samaddar