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The Equation of State (EOS) for asymmetric nuclear matter is discussed starting from a phenomenological hadronic field theory of Serot-Walecka type including exchange terms. In a model with self interactions of the scalar sigma-meson we…

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We present a theoretical framework to quantify statistical uncertainties in covariant density functional theory (CDFT) for both nuclear matter and finite nuclei, based on a relativistic point-coupling energy density functional (EDF). By…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 X. Zhang , C. C. Wang , C. R. Ding , J. M. Yao

The crust of a neutron star is essentially determined by the low-density region ($\rho<\rho_0\approx0.15-0.16\unit{fm}^{-3}$) of the equation of state. At the bottom of the inner crust, where the density is $\rho\lesssim0.1\rho_0$, the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-10 Márcio Ferreira , Constança Providência

We construct tables of finite temperature equation of state (EoS) of hypernuclear matter in the range of densities, temperatures, and electron fractions that are needed for numerical simulations of supernovas, proto-neutron stars, and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-24 Stefanos Tsiopelas , Armen Sedrakian , Micaela Oertel

The strong-field gravity in General Relativity (GR) realized in neutron stars (NSs) renders the Equation of State (EOS) $P(\varepsilon)$ of supradense neutron star (NS) matter to be essentially nonlinear and refines the upper bound for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-12 Bao-Jun Cai , Bao-An Li

A new scheme for testing the nuclear matter (NM) equation of state (EoS) at high densities using constraints from compact star (CS) phenomenology is applied to neutron stars with a core of deconfined quark matter (QM). An acceptable EoS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Grigorian , D. Blaschke , T. Klahn

Finite nuclei constrain the dense-matter equation of state (EOS), yet they are self-bound quantum droplets far from the thermodynamic limit. Motivated by an analogy to quantum dots, we show that the nuclear chart nevertheless defines a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler

This thesis investigates the impact of dark matter on neutron star properties, focusing on mass, radius, and tidal deformability. Using two-fluid and single-fluid models, dark matter is incorporated into the equation of state (EOS) via a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-25 Prashant Thakur

We previously studied the inner crust and the pasta mantle of a neutron star within the 4th-order extended Thomas-Fermi (ETF) approach with consistent proton shell corrections added perturbatively via the Strutinsky integral (SI) theorem…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-07 N. N. Shchechilin , N. Chamel , J. M. Pearson , A. I. Chugunov , A. Y. Potekhin

The formation of complex nonuniform phases of nuclear matter, known as nuclear pasta, is studied with molecular dynamics simulations containing 51200 nucleons. A phenomenological nuclear interaction is used that reproduces the saturation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-12-25 A. S. Schneider , C. J. Horowitz , J. Hughto , D. K. Berry

Based on the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock model (SHF) as well as its extension (the Korea-IBS-Daegu-SKKU (KIDS) model) and the relativistic mean-field (RMF) model, we have studied the constraints on the parameters of the nuclear matter equation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 Jia Zhou , Jun Xu , Panagiota Papakonstantinou

We show that the widely used parabolic approximation to the Equation of State (EOS) of asymmetric nuclear matter leads systematically to significantly higher core-crust transition densities and pressures. Using an EOS for neutron-rich…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-03-04 Lie-Wen Chen , Bao-An Li , Hong-Ru Ma , Jun Xu

Symmetric nuclear matter is studied within the conserving, self-consistent T-matrix approximation. This approach involves off-shell propagation of nucleons in the ladder diagrams. The binding energy receives contributions from the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Bozek

We investigate the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy $S(\rho ) $ in the KIDS (Korea-IBS-Daegu-SKKU) framework for the nuclear equation of state (EoS) and energy-density functional (EDF). The aim is to constrain the value of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-09 Hana Gil , Panagiota Papakonstantinou , Chang Ho Hyun

We perform a Bayesian inference of the dense-matter equation of state (EOS) within a unified framework that incorporates hadronic matter, quark matter, and a smooth hadron-to-quark crossover. The EOS is constrained using physical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-11 Xavier Grundler , Bao-An Li

We construct a new equation of state (EOS) for numerical simulations of core-collapse supernovae and neutron-star mergers based on an extended relativistic mean-field model with a small symmetry energy slope $L$, which is compatible with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-17 Hong Shen , Fan Ji , Jinniu Hu , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi

We examine critically how tightly the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy \esym is constrained by the universal equation of state (EOS) of the unitary Fermi gas $E_{\rm{UG}}(\rho)$ considering currently known uncertainties of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-10 Nai-Bo Zhang , Bao-Jun Cai , Bao-An Li , William G. Newton , Jun Xu

A microscopic framework of nuclear energy density functionals is reviewed, which establishes a direct relation between low-energy QCD and nuclear structure, synthesizing effective field theory methods and principles of density functional…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Dario Vretenar

The increasing richness of data related to cold dense matter, from laboratory experiments to neutron-star observations, requires a framework for constraining the properties of such matter that makes use of all relevant information. Here, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 M. Coleman Miller , Cecilia Chirenti , Frederick K. Lamb

Pairing effects in non-uniform nuclear matter, surrounded by electrons, are studied in the protoneutron star early stage and in other conditions. The so-called nuclear pasta phases at subsaturation densities are solved in a Wigner-Seitz…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-30 U. J. Furtado , S. S. Avancini , J. R. Marinelli