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Repulsive short-range interactions can induce p-wave attraction between fermions in dense matter and lead to Cooper pairing at the Fermi surface. We investigate this phenomenon, well-known as the Kohn-Luttinger effect in condensed matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-06 Mia Kumamoto , Sanjay Reddy

We review the long standing problem of superfluid pairing in pure neutron matter. For the $s$-wave pairing, we summarize the state of the art of many-body approaches including different $nn$ interactions, medium polarization, short-range…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-06-14 S. Ramanan , M. Urban

In this work we calculate neutron and proton energy gaps in neutron star matter, using the Bonn meson--exchange interactions and a model--space approach to the gap equation. This approach allows a consistent calculation of energy gaps and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 O. Elgaroy , L. Engvik , M. Hjorth-Jensen , E. Osnes

A novel equation of state used for analysis of the heavy ion collision experimental data is generalized to also describe the matter inside neutron stars. This approach differs from others by including an induced surface tension caused by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-20 V. Sagun , I. Lopes , A. Ivanytskyi

Nuclear pairing is studied both in atomic nuclei and in neutron-star crusts in the unified framework of the energy-density functional theory using generalized Skyrme functionals complemented with a local pairing functional obtained from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 N. Chamel , J. M. Pearson , S. Goriely

Pairing correlations in symmetric nuclear matter are studied within a relativistic mean-field approximation based on a field theory of nucleons coupled to neutral ($\sigma$ and $\omega$) and to charged ($\varrho$) mesons. The Hartree-Fock…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 F. Matera , G. Fabbri , A. Dellafiore

To deal with the problem of realistic nuclear interactions we have combined techniques of the Jastrow-Feenberg variational method and the local parquet-diagram theory. In the language of diagrammatic perturbation theory, ``commutator…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-08 Eckhard Krotscheck , Jiawei Wang

Understanding the interactions between nucleons in dense matter is an important challenge in theoretical physics. Effective field theories have emerged as the dominant approach to address this problem at low energies, with many successful…

The self-energy effect on the neutron-proton (np) pairing gap is investigated up to the third order within the framework of the extend Bruecker-Hartree-Fock (BHF) approach combined with the BCS theory. The self-energy up to the second-order…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-07-26 Xiao-Hua Fan , Xin-le Shang , Jian-Min Dong , Wei Zuo

Finite nuclei such as those found in the chain of even tin isotopes from ^{102}Sn to ^{130}Sn, exhibit a near constancy of the 2^+_1-0^+_1 excitation energy, a constancy which can be related to strong pairing correlations and the near…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Oe. Elgaroey , T. Engeland , M. Hjorth-Jensen , E. Osnes

We utilize the generalized contact formalism in conjunction with the Woods-Saxon mean-field description of the long-range part of the nuclear wave function to assess the relative prevalence of short-range correlation pairs within atomic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-23 Raz Yankovich , Ehoud Pazy , Nir Barnea

We investigated effects of pairing correlations on the neutron skin thickness and the symmetry energy of finite nuclei. In this calculation we used Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) method with Skyrme forces and effective pairing interactions.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Soonchul Choi , Ying Zhang , Myung-Ki Cheoun , Youngshin Kwon , Kyungsik Kim , Hungchong Kim

We study the cooling of isolated neutron stars, employing different nuclear equations of state with or without active direct Urca process, and investigate the interplay with the nuclear pairing gaps. We find that a consistent description of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-12 H. C. Das , Jin-Biao Wei , G. F. Burgio , H. -J. Schulze

A proper treatment of the resonant continuum is to take account of not only the energy of the resonant state, but also its width. The effect of the resonant states on pairing correlations is presented based on the relativistic mean field…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Li-Gang Cao , Zhong-Yu Ma

We investigated the superfluid properties of the inner crust of neutron stars, solving the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov equations in spherical Wigner-Seitz cells. Using realistic two-body interactions in the pairing channel, we studied in detail…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Alessandro Pastore , Simone Baroni , Cristina Losa

We investigate the impact of pairing correlations on neutrino transport in stellar matter. Our analysis is extended to nuclear matter conditions where large density fluctuations develop, associated with the onset of the liquid-vapor phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 S. Burrello , M. Colonna , F. Matera

The coexistence of neutron-neutron (n-n), proton-proton (p-p), and neutron-proton (n-p) pairings is investigated by adopting an effective density-dependent contact pairing potential. These three types of pairings can coexist only if the n-p…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-27 Yi-Jun Yan , Xin-Le Shang , Jian-Min Dong , Wei Zuo

The properties of inhomogeneous neutron matter are crucial to the physics of neutron-rich nuclei and the crust of neutron stars. Advances in computational techniques now allow us to accurately determine the binding energies and densities of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-02-01 S. Gandolfi , J. Carlson , Steven C. Pieper

The study of neutron stars is a topic of central interest in the investigation of the properties of strongly compressed hadronic matter. Whereas in heavy-ion collisions the fireball, created in the collision zone, contains very hot matter,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Schramm , V. Dexheimer , R. Negreiros , T. Schürhoff , J. Steinheimer

Analysis of various mass relations connected with neutron-proton correlations in atomic nuclei is carried out. On the example of $N = Z$ chain it is shown that for self-adjoint nuclei various formulas proposed in literature for $ np $…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-11 B. S. Ishkhanov , S. Sidorov , T. Tretyakova , E. Vladimirova