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The nuclear symmetry energy plays an important role in the description of the properties of finite nuclei as well as neutron stars. Especially, for low values of baryon density, the accurate description of the crust-core interface strongly…

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A deformed relativistic Hartree Bogoliubov (RHB) theory in continuum is developed aiming at a proper description of exotic nuclei, particularly those with a large spatial extension. In order to give an adequate consideration of both the…

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We aim to present a generalized Bayesian inference method for constraining interiors of super Earths and sub-Neptunes. Our methodology succeeds in quantifying the degeneracy and correlation of structural parameters for high dimensional…

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The structure of low-energy collective states in proton-deficient N=28 isotones is analyzed using structure models based on the relativistic energy density functional DD-PC1. The relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov model for triaxial nuclei is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-09-28 Z. P. Li , J. M. Yao , D. Vretenar , T. Niksic , H. Chen , J. Meng

The composition of the inner crust of neutron stars is usually studied using phenomenological interactions such as Skyrme energy-density functionals. But most of these functionals do not agree well with ab-initio calculations of very dilute…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-10 Sunny Kumar Gupta , Michael Urban

The neutron and proton density distributions obtained in constrained Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov calculations with the Gogny force along the fission paths of 232Th, 236U, 238U and 240Pu are analyzed. Significant differences in the multipole…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 J. F. Berger , K. Pomorski

We explore the spectrum of low-energy collective excitations in the crust of a neutron star, especially in the inner region where neutron-proton clusters are immersed in a sea of superfluid neutrons. The speeds of the different modes are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-16 N. Chamel , D. Page , S. Reddy

An accurate description of low-density nuclear matter is crucial for explaining the physics of neutron star crusts. In the density range between approximately 0.01 fm$^{-3}$ and 0.1 fm$^{-3}$, matter transitions from neutron-rich nuclei to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-01 Bryce Fore , Jane Kim , Morten Hjorth-Jensen , Alessandro Lovato

A new scheme to study the properties of finite nuclei is proposed based on the Dirac-Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (DBHF) approach starting from a bare nucleon-nucleon interaction. The relativistic structure of the nucleon self-energies in nuclear…

Laser spectroscopy of muonic atoms has been recently used to probe properties of light nuclei with unprecedented precision. We introduce nuclear effects in hydrogen-like atoms, nucleon structure quantities (form factors, structure…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-01-09 Aldo Antognini , Franziska Hagelstein , Vladimir Pascalutsa

The ground-state properties of nuclei with 8 $\le$ Z $\le$ 120 from the proton drip line to the neutron drip line have been investigated using the relativistic continuum Hartree-Bogoliubov (RCHB) theory with the relativistic density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-06-05 X. W. Xia , Y. Lim , P. W. Zhao , H. Z. Liang , X. Y. Qu , Y. Chen , H. Liu , L. F. Zhang , S. Q. Zhang , Y. Kim , J. Meng

The rod phase as it is expected in the bottom layers of neutron-star crusts is analyzed within the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov framework. In order to well describe the interplay between band structure and superfluidity, periodicity of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-18 Giorgio Almirante , Michael Urban

As part of a program to study odd-A nuclei in the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) theory, we have developed a new calculational tool to find the HFB minima of odd-A nuclei based on the gradient method and using interactions of Gogny's form.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 L. M. Robledo , R. Bernard , G. F. Bertsch

Accurate modeling of the neutron star crust is essential for interpreting multimessenger observations and constraining the nuclear equation of state (EoS). However, standard phenomenological EoS models often rely on heuristic extrapolations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-14 S. Burrello , F. Gulminelli , M. Antonelli , M. Colonna , A. Fantina

We have investigated some of the properties of dense sub-nuclear matter at the crustal region (both the outer crust and the inner crust region) of a magnetar. The relativistic version of Thomas-Fermi (TF) model is used in presence of strong…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-18 Nandini Nag , Sutapa Ghosh , Somenath Chakrabarty

The properties of neutron star are studied in the framework of relativistic Hartree-Fock (RHF) model with realistic nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) interactions, i.e. Bonn potentials. The strong repulsion of $NN$ interaction at short range is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-28 Ying Zhang , Peng Liu , Jinniu Hu

The transition density $\rho_{t}$ and pressure $P_{t}$ at the inner edge separating the liquid core from the solid crust of neutron stars are systematically studied using a modified Gogny (MDI) and 47 popular Skyrme interactions within well…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Jun Xu , Lie-Wen Chen , Bao-An Li , Hong-Ru Ma

We present simulations of neutron-rich matter at subnuclear densities, like supernova matter, with the time-dependent Hartree-Fock approximation at temperatures of several MeV. The initial state consists of $\alpha$ particles randomly…

The possible presence of amorphous and heterogeneous phases in the inner crust of a neutron star is expected to reduce the electrical conductivity of the crust, with potentially important consequences on the magneto-thermal evolution of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-20 T. Carreau , A. F. Fantina , F. Gulminelli

A new analysis method to investigate halos in finite many-fermion systems is designed, as existing characterization methods are proven to be incomplete/inaccurate. A decomposition of the internal wave-function of the {$N$-body} system in…

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