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We establish a correlation for the symmetry energy at saturation density $S_{0}$, slope parameter $L$ and curvature parameter $K_{\text{sym}}$ based on widely different mean field interactions. With the help of this correlation and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-09-11 Jianmin Dong , Wei Zuo , Jianzhong Gu , Umberto Lombardo

The elliptic flow in collisions of neutron-rich heavy-ion systems at intermediate energies emerges as an observable sensitive to the strength of the symmetry energy at supra-saturation densities. First results obtained by comparing ratios…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-02-06 W. Trautmann , H. H. Wolter

The model dependence in the correlations of the neutron-skin thickness in heavy nuclei with various symmetry energy parameters is analyzed by using several families of systematically varied microscopic mean field models. Such correlations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-06-22 C. Mondal , B. K. Agrawal , M. Centelles , G. Colò , X. Roca-Maza , N. Paar , X. Viñas , S. K. Singh , S. K. Patra

Based on the Skyrme energy density functional, the spatial distribution of the symmetry energy of a finite nucleus is derived in order to examine whether the symmetry energy of a finite nucleus originates from its interior or from its…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-01-15 Jianmin Dong , Wei Zuo , Jianzhong Gu

Nuclear supersymmetry is reviewed and some of its applications and extensions are discussed, together with a proposal for new, more stringent and precise tests to probe the supersymmetry classification, in particular, correlations between…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Barea , R. Bijker , A. Frank

We make use of isospin constraints to study the parametric coupling model and the properties of asymmetric nuclear matter. Besides the usual constraints for nuclear matter - effective nucleon mass and the incompressibility at saturation…

Energy for a nucleus is considered in macroscopic limit, in terms of nucleon numbers. Further considered for a nuclear system is the Hohenberg-Kohn energy functional, in terms of proton and neutron densities. Finally, Skyrme-Hartree-Fock…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Pawel Danielewicz , Jenny Lee

Within the interacting Fermi gas model for isospin asymmetric nuclear matter, effects of the in-medium three-body interaction and the two-body short-range tensor force due to the $\rho$ meson exchange as well as the short-range nucleon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Chang Xu , Bao-An Li

Empirically determined values of the nuclear volume and surface symmetry energy coefficients from nuclear masses are expressed in terms of density distributions of nucleons in heavy nuclei in the local density approximation. This is then…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 B. K. Agrawal , J. N. De , S. K. Samaddar , G. Colo , A. Sulaksono

We explore the impact of neutron-rich nuclei masses on the symmetry energy properties using the mass table evaluated by the deformed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory in continuum (DRHBc) model. First, using the semi-empirical mass…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-07-12 Seonghyun Kim , Dukjae Jang , Soonchul Choi , Tsuyoshi Miyatsu , Myung-Ki Cheoun

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

A thorough understanding of properties of neutron stars requires both a reliable knowledge of the equation of state (EOS) of super-dense nuclear matter and the strong-field gravity theories simultaneously. To provide information that may…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-21 Xiao-Tao He , F. J. Fattoyev , Bao-An Li , W. G. Newton

Recent studies have revealed that certain nuclear parameters are more dominant than others in governing global neutron star properties, such as its structure or oscillation mode characteristics. Although neutron stars can in general assumed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-16 Nilaksha Barman , Bikram Keshari Pradhan , Debarati Chatterjee

We study the correlation between the thickness of the neutron skin in finite nuclei and the nuclear symmetry energy for isotopic chains of even-even Ni, Sn, and Pb nuclei in the framework of the deformed self-consistent mean-field Skyrme…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 M. K. Gaidarov , A. N. Antonov , P. Sarriguren , E. Moya de Guerra

It is shown that the experimentally observed decrease of the nuclear symmetry energy with the increasing centrality or the excitation energy in isotopic scaling analyses of heavy-ion reactions can be well understood analytically within a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Bao-An Li , Lie-Wen Chen

The LIGO-Virgo collaboration detection of the binary neutron-star merger event, GW170817, has expanded efforts to understand the Equation of State (EoS) of nuclear matter. These measurements provide new constraints on the overall pressure,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-07-24 M. B. Tsang , W. G. Lynch , P. Danielewicz , C. Y. Tsang

Effects of the short-range tensor interaction on the density-dependence of nuclear symmetry energy are examined by applying an approximate expression for the second-order tensor contribution to the symmetry energy derived earlier by G.E.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-05 Ang Li , Bao-An Li

The nuclear interaction is responsible for keeping neutrons and protons joined in an atomic nucleus. Phenomenological nuclear potentials, fitted to experimental data, allow one to know about the nuclear behaviour with more or less success…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-05-26 I. Casinos

The rapidity dependence of the single- and double- neutron to proton ratios of nucleon emission from isospin-asymmetric but mass-symmetric reactions Zr+Ru and Ru+Zr at energy range $100 \sim 800$ A MeV and impact parameter range $0\sim 8$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Qingfeng Li , Zhuxia Li , Horst Stoecker

The status of relativistic nuclear many-body calculations of nuclear systems to be built up in terms of protons and neutrons is reviewed. In detail, relativistic effects on several aspects of nuclear matter such as the effective mass,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 E. N. E. van Dalen , H. Müther