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Using the nuclear symmetry energy that has been recently constrained by the isospin diffusion data in intermediate-energy heavy ion collisions, we have studied the transition density and pressure at the inner edge of neutron star crusts,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Jun Xu , Che Ming Ko , Lie-Wen Chen , Bao-an Li , Hong-Ru Ma

A fully self-consistent model of the neutron star inner crust based upon models of the nucleonic equation of state at zero temperature is constructed. The results nearly match those of previous calculations of the inner crust given the same…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrew W. Steiner

The isospin- and momentum-dependent MDI interaction, which has been extensively used in intermediate-energy heavy-ion reactions to study the properties of asymmetric nuclear matter, is extended to include the nucleon-hyperon and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-05-21 Jun Xu , Lie-Wen Chen , Che Ming Ko , Bao-An Li

We study nuclear symmetry energy and the thermodynamic instabilities of asymmetric nuclear matter in a self-consistent manner by using a modified quark-meson coupling model where the confining interaction for quarks inside a nucleon is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-12-16 R. N. Mishra , H. S. Sahoo , P. K. Panda , N. Barik , T. Frederico

The symmetry energy at sub and supra-saturation densities has a great importance in understanding the exact nature of asymmetric nuclear matter as well as neutron star, but, it is poor known, especially at supra-saturation densities. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-03-02 S. Kumar , Y. G. Ma , G. Q. Zhang , C. L. Zhou

We examine how the properties of inhomogeneous nuclear matter at subnuclear densities depend on the density dependence of the symmetry energy. Using a macroscopic nuclear model we calculate the size and shape of nuclei in neutron star…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Kazuhiro Oyamatsu , Kei Iida

After reviewing our microscopic approach to nuclear and neutron-rich matter, we focus on how nucleon-nucleon scattering is impacted by the presence of a dense hadronic medium, with special emphasis on the case where neutron and proton…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Francesca Sammarruca

Using various relativistic mean-field models, including the nonlinear ones with meson field self-interactions, those with density-dependent meson-nucleon couplings, and the point-coupling models without meson fields, we have studied the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Lie-Wen Chen , Che Ming Ko , Bao-An Li

We investigate the effects of the symmetry energy on nuclear pasta phases and the crust-core transition in neutron stars. We employ the relativistic mean-field approach and the coexisting phases method to study the properties of pasta…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 S. S. Bao , H. Shen

The slope of the nuclear symmetry energy at saturation density $L$ is pointed out as a crucial quantity to determine the mass and width of neutron-star crusts. This letter clarifies the relation between $L$ and the core-crust transition. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-09-08 Camille Ducoin , Jérôme Margueron , Constança Providencia

The density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy is determined from a systematic study of the isospin dependent bulk properties of asymmetric nuclear matter using the isoscalar and the isovector components of density dependent M3Y…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-08-07 P. Roy Chowdhury , D. N. Basu , C. Samanta

In the present work we include the isovector-scalar $\delta$-meson in the quark-meson coupling model (QMC) and study the properties of asymmetric nuclear within QMC without and with the $\delta$-meson. Recent constraints set by isospin…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-12-31 Alexandre M. Santos , Prafulla K. Panda , Constança Providência

The form of the nuclear symmetry energy $E_s$ around saturation point density leads to a different crust-core transition point in the neutron star and affect the crust properties. We show that the knowledge about $E_s$ close to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-01 S. Kubis , J. Porebska , D. E. Alvarez-Castillo

In this work we study the effect of the symmetry energy on several properties of neutron stars. First, we discuss its effect on the density, proton fraction and pressure of the neutron star crust-core transition. We show that whereas the…

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…

Using the equation of state of asymmetric nuclear matter that has been recently constrained by the isospin diffusion data from intermediate-energy heavy ion collisions, we have studied the transition density and pressure at the inner edge…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-12-01 Lie-Wen Chen , Bao-An Li , Hong-Ru Ma , Jun Xu

The effect of density dependent symmetry energy on nuclear-stopping is studied using isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics model(IQMD). We have used the reduced isospin-dependent cross-section with soft(S) equation of state for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-12-23 Karan Singh Vinayak , Suneel Kumar

Generalized symmetry energy coefficients of asymmetric nuclear matter are obtained as screening functions. The dependence of the isospin symmetry energy coefficient on the neutron proton (n-p) asymmetry may be determined unless by a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Fabio L. Braghin

Nuclear reactions induced by stable and/or radioactive neutron-rich nuclei provide the opportunity to pin down the equation of state of neutron-rich matter, especially the density ($\rho$) dependence of its isospin-dependent part, i.e., the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Bao-An Li , Lie-Wen Chen , Che Ming Ko , Andrew W. Steiner

Symmetry energy for asymmetric nuclear matter at subsaturation densitieswas investigated in the framework of an isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics model.Asingle ratio of neutrons and protons is comparedwith the experimental data…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-11-18 Sanjeev Kumar , Y. G. Ma , G. Q. Zhang , C. L. Zhou