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The density dependencies of various effective interaction strengths in the relativistic mean field are studied and carefully compared for nuclear matter and neutron stars. The influences of different density dependencies are presented and…

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We investigate the constraints on the neutron star equation of state (EoS) and nuclear properties achievable with third-generation gravitational wave detectors using the Fisher information matrix approach within the relativistic mean field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-29 Zhenyu Zhu , Richard O'Shaughnessy

Parity-violating electron scattering experiments on $\rm ^{48}Ca$ (CREX) and $\rm ^{208}Pb$ (PREX-2) offer valuable insight into the isovector properties of finite nuclei, providing constraints for the density dependence of the nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-04 P. S. Koliogiannis , E. Yuksel , N. Paar

We investigate possible correlations between the stiffness of the symmetry energy at saturation density, the so-called $L$ parameter, and the neutron skin thickness of ${^{48}}$Ca and ${^{208}}$Pb, for which the recent measurements from the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-25 G. F. Burgio , H. C. Das , I. Vidana

We show how observations of gravitational waves from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers over the next few years can be combined with insights from nuclear physics to obtain useful constraints on the equation of state (EoS) of dense matter,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-23 Michael McNeil Forbes , Sukanta Bose , Sanjay Reddy , Dake Zhou , Arunava Mukherjee , Soumi De

A modified version of the density dependent covariant density functional model proposed in [T. Malik, M. Ferreira, B. K. Agrawal and C. Provid\^encia, ApJ 930, 17 (2022)] is employed in a Bayesian analysis to determine the equation of state…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-12 Mikhail V. Beznogov , Adriana R. Raduta

The energy radiated in supernova neutrinos is a fundamental quantity that is closely related to the gravitational binding energy of a neutron star. Recently the tidal deformability of neutron stars was constrained by gravitational wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Brendan Reed , C. J. Horowitz

High density behaviour of nuclear symmetry energy is studied on the basis of a stiffest density dependence of asymmetric contribution to energy per nucleon in charge neutral $n+p+e+\mu$ matter under beta equilibrium. The density dependence…

General Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 B Behera , T R Routray , S K Tripathy

We confront observational data from gravitational wave event GW170817 with microscopic modeling of the cold neutron star equation of state. We develop and employ a Bayesian statistical framework that enables us to implement constraints on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 Yeunhwan Lim , Jeremy W. Holt

The first detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star-neutron star merger, GW170817, has opened up a new avenue for constraining the ultradense-matter equation of state (EOS). The deviation of the observed waveform from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 Carolyn A. Raithel

We study possible effects of a dark matter (DM) core on the maximum mass of a neutron star (NS), on the mass-radius relation and on the NS tidal deformability parameter $\Lambda$. We show that all these quantities would in general be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-20 John Ellis , Gert Hütsi , Kristjan Kannike , Luca Marzola , Martti Raidal , Ville Vaskonen

The joint effect of the density dependence of the symmetry energy and strangeness content on the structure of cold neutron stars is studied within the framework of a relativistic mean field theory. It is shown that 2$M_\odot$ are obtained…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-02-18 Daniel Bizarro , Aziz Rabhi , Constança Providência

There is a growing interest in investigating modified theories of gravity, primarily, with the aim of explaining the universe's accelerated expansion, which has been confirmed by several independent observations. Compact objects, like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-16 K Nobleson , Tuhin Malik , Sarmistha Banik

The equation of state (EOS) of high-density matter is still not clear and several recent observations indicate restrictions to EOSs. Theoretical studies should thus elucidate EOSs at high density and/or high temperature. Many theoretical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-04 Tomoki Endo

The accurate determination of the maximum mass of the neutron stars is one of the most important tasks in astrophysics. It is directly related to the identification of the black holes in the universe, the production of neutron stars from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-21 Ch. C. Moustakidis , T. Gaitanos , Ch. Margaritis , G. A. Lalazissis

We systematically study the observable properties of dark-matter admixed neutron stars, employing a realistic nuclear EOS in combination with self-interacting fermionic dark matter respecting constraints on the self-interaction cross…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-10-23 Hong-Ming Liu , Jin-Biao Wei , Zeng-Hua Li , G. F. Burgio , H. C. Das , H. -J. Schulze

At the ultra-high densities existing in the core of neutron stars, it is expected that a phase transition from baryonic to deconfined quark matter may occur. Such a phase transition would affect the underlying equation of state (EoS) as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-15 Swarnim Shirke , Suprovo Ghosh , Debarati Chatterjee

The equation of state (EOS) of dense matter has been a long-sought goal of nuclear physics. Equations of state generate unique mass versus radius (M-R) relations for neutron stars, the ultra-dense remnants of stellar evolution. In this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Andrew W. Steiner , James M. Lattimer , Edward F. Brown

Using a meta model for nuclear Equation of State (EOS) with its parameters constrained by astrophysical observations and terrestrial nuclear experiments, we examine effects of nuclear EOS especially its symmetry energy \esym term on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Nai-Bo Zhang , Bao-An Li

A principal goal of gravitational-wave astronomy is to constrain the neutron star equation of state (EOS) by measuring the tidal deformability of neutron stars. The tidally induced departure of the waveform from that of point-particle (or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-05 Eric D. Van Oeveren , John L. Friedman