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Description of a nuclear system in its ground state and at low excitations based on the equation of state (EoS) around normal density is presented. In the expansion of the EoS around the saturation point additional spin polarization terms…

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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…

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We have attempted to mitigate the challenge of connecting the neutron star (NS) properties with the nuclear matter parameters that describe equations of state (EoSs). The efforts to correlate various neutron star properties with individual…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-13 N. K. Patra , Prafulla Saxena , B. K. Agrawal , T. K. Jha

The nuclear symmetry energy represents a response to the neutron-proton asymmetry. In this survey we discuss various aspects of symmetry energy in the framework of nuclear density functional theory, considering both non-relativistic and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-08-07 W. Nazarewicz , P. -G. Reinhard , W. Satula , D. Vretenar

Significant progress has been made recently in constraining the isospin-dependent parameters characterizing the SRC (short-range correlation)-modified single-nucleon momentum distribution in neutron-rich nucleonic matter using both…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-01-28 Bao-Jun Cai , Bao-An Li

We investigate the nature and impact of shell effects on nuclear level density (NLD) and particle emission probability as a function of temperature in a microscopic theoretical framework of Statistical Model for nuclei ranging from neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-03 Mamta Aggarwal

The composition and properties of infinite nuclear matter under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure remain incompletely understood. In this work, we constrain the equation of state (EoS) of nuclear matter - constructed within the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-04 Rahul Kumar , Prasanta Char , Rana Nandi

The equation of state (EOS) for nuclear and neutron rich matter is investigated in a Relativistic Mean Field (RMF) model. New shell states are found that minimize the free energy per baryon, calculated in a spherical Wigner-Seitz (WS)…

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Radii of charge and neutron distributions are fundamental nuclear properties. They depend on both nuclear interaction parameters related to the equation of state of infinite nuclear matter and on quantal shell effects, which are strongly…

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Calculations for infinite nuclear matter with realistic nucleon-nucleon interactions suggest that the isoscalar effective mass (IEM) of a nucleon at the saturation density equals $m^*/m\sim 0.8\pm 0.1$, at variance with empirical data on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Zalewski , P. Olbratowski , W. Satula

Nuclear level density (NLD) and radiative strength function (RSF) are described simultaneously within a microscopic approach, which takes into account the thermal effects of the exact pairing as well as the giant resonances within the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-20 N. Quang Hung , N. Dinh Dang , L. T. Quynh Huong

We systematically investigate the thermodynamic properties of homogeneous nuclear matter with light clusters at low densities and finite temperatures using a generalized nonlinear relativistic mean-field (gNL-RMF) model, in which light…

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Phenomenological approach to inhomogeneous nuclear matter is useful to describe fundamental properties of atomic nuclei and neutron star crusts in terms of the equation of state of uniform nuclear matter. We review a series of researches…

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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

We construct nuclear energy density functionals in terms of derivatives of densities up to sixth, next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3LO). A phenomenological functional built in this way conforms to the ideas of the density matrix…

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We explore the systematics of the density dependence of nuclear matter symmetry energy in the ambit of microscopic calculations with various energy density functionals, and find that the symmetry energy from subsaturation density to…

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The secondary component of the GW190814 event left us with a question, "whether it is a supermassive neutron star or lightest black-hole?". Recently, Fattoyev et al. have obtained an energy density functional (EDF) named as BigApple, which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-12-06 H. C. Das , Ankit Kumar , Bharat Kumar , S. K. Biswal , S. K. Patra

From the lightest Hydrogen isotopes up to the recently synthesized Oganesson (Z=118), it is estimated that as many as about 3000 atomic nuclei could exist in nature. Most of these nuclei are too short-lived to be occurring on Earth, but…

Gravitational waves (GW) emanating from unstable quasi-normal modes in Neutron Stars (NS) could be accessible with the improved sensitivity of the current GW detectors or with the next-generation GW detectors and, therefore, can be employed…

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