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The present study aims at further development of covariant energy density functionals (CEDFs) towards more accurate description of binding energies across the nuclear chart. For the first time, infinite basis corrections to binding energies…

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Using an energy density functional (EDF) based on the thermodynamic Gibbs-Duhem relation, found equivalent to the standard Skyrme EDF for infinite nuclear matter, it is demonstrated that the parameters of this EDF are not uniquely…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-12-26 Tuhin Malik , C. Mondal , B. K. Agrawal , J. N. De , S. K. Samaddar

We study a particular class of relativistic nuclear energy density functionals in which only nucleon degrees of freedom are explicitly used in the construction of effective interaction terms. Short-distance (high-momentum) correlations, as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Niksic , D. Vretenar , P. Ring

Considering the effects of charge screening, we propose a new numerical recipe within the framework of Thomas-Fermi approximation, where the properties of nuclear matter throughout a vast density range can be obtained self-consistently.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-19 Cheng-Jun Xia , Bao Yuan Sun , Toshiki Maruyama , Wen-Hui Long , Ang Li

Relativistic energy density functionals (REDF) provide a complete and accurate, global description of nuclear structure phenomena. A modern semi-empirical functional, adjusted to the nuclear matter equation of state and to empirical masses…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 V. Prassa , T. Niksic , G. A. Lalazissis , D. Vretenar

In the framework of Thomas-Fermi approximation, we study systematically the EOSs and microscopic structures of neutron star matter in a vast density range with $n_\mathrm{b}\approx 10^{-10}$-2 $\mathrm{fm}^{-3}$, where various covariant…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-30 Cheng-Jun Xia , Toshiki Maruyama , Ang Li , Bao Yuan Sun , Wen-Hui Long , Ying-Xun Zhang

Background: The nuclear symmetry energy is a fundamental ingredient in determining the equation of state (EOS) of neutron stars (NS). Recent terrestrial experiments constrain both its value and slope at nuclear saturation density, however,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-08-04 O. Hen , A. W. Steiner , E. Piasetzky , L. B. Weinstein

The density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy governs important aspects of very neutron rich systems such as heavy nuclei and their collisions, neutron stars and their mergers. Many analyses of experimental data have generated…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-05-29 W. G. Lynch , M. B. Tsang

The symmetric nuclear matter and pure neutron matter are investigated by the relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (RBHF) theory with the covariant chiral nuclear forces up to the next-to-leading order~(NLO). A fitting scheme to ensure the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-24 Wei-Jiang Zou , Yi-Long Yang , Jun-Xu Lu , Peng-Wei Zhao , Li-Sheng Geng , Jie Meng

This study analyzes and contrasts different phenomenological methods used to model the nuclear equation of state (EOS) for neutron star matter based on covariant energy density functionals (CEDF). Using two complementary methodologies, we…

In this review, we will discuss the results of our recent work to study the general optimization of the pure isovector parameters of the popular relativistic mean-field (RMF) and Skyrme-Hartree-Fock (SHF) nuclear energy-density functionals…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-03-27 F. J. Fattoyev , W. G. Newton , Jun Xu , Bao-An Li

The formation of clusters at sub-saturation densities constitutes an essential feature for a reliable modelization of the nuclear matter equation of state (EoS). Phenomenological models that make use of energy density functionals (EDFs)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-08 S. Burrello , S. Typel

A covariant hyper-nuclear energy density functional (EDF) is derived from in medium nucleon meson vertex functionals, assuring the proper description of nuclear mean-field dynamics. The fundamental SU(3) coupling constants for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 Horst Lenske , Madhumita Dhar

We use effective field theory to compute the influence of nuclear structure on precision calculations of atomic energy levels. As usual, the EFT's effective couplings correspond to the various nuclear properties (such as the charge radius,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-19 L. Zalavari , C. P. Burgess , P. Hayman , M. Rummel

We obtained a density-dependent analytical expression of binding energy per nucleon for different neutron-proton asymmetry of the nuclear matter (NM) with a polynomial fitting, which manifests the results of effective field theory motivated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Ankit Kumar , H. C. Das , Manpreet Kaur , M. Bhuyan , S. K. Patra

Adopting the density dependent relativistic mean-field (RMF) and relativistic Hartree-Fock (RHF) approaches, the properties of the nuclear fourth-order symmetry energy $S_4$ are studied within the covariant density functional (CDF) theory.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-02-12 Zhi Wei Liu , Zhuang Qian , Ruo Yu Xing , Jia Rui Niu , Bao Yuan Sun

The nuclear symmetry energy plays a key role in determining the equation of state (EoS) of dense, neutron-rich matter, which connects the atomic nuclei with the hot and dense matter in universe, thus has been the subject of intense…

The large imbalance in the neutron and proton densities in very neutron rich systems increases the nuclear symmetry energy so that it governs many aspects of neutron stars and their mergers. Extracting the density dependence of the symmetry…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-06-01 W. G. Lynch , M. B. Tsang

For a dense stellar matter, which is electrically neutral and in beta equilibrium, the electron chemical potential, mu_e, will depend nontrivially on baryonic matter density. It is generally expected that as density increases, the electron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-09 Kyungmin Kim , Hyun Kyu Lee

We propose a new scheme for constructing an effective-field-theory-based interaction to be used in the energy-density-functional (EDF) theory with specific assumptions for defining a power counting. This procedure is developed through the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-09-27 C. -J. Yang , M. Grasso , D. Lacroix