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We investigate the nuclear symmetry energy and neutron star properties using a Bayesian analysis based on constraints from different chiral effective field theory calculations using new energy density functionals that allow for large…

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The bulk properties of nuclear matter and neutron stars with the newly generated relativistic interaction DBHP are investigated which provides an opportunity to modify the coupling parameters keeping in view the finite nuclei, nuclear…

Elements of nuclear symmetry energy evaluated from different energy density functionals parametrized by fitting selective bulk properties of few representative nuclei are seen to vary widely. Those obtained from experimental data on nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-08-07 C. Mondal , B. K. Agrawal , J. N. De

Laboratory experiments sensitive to the equation of state of neutron rich matter in the vicinity of nuclear saturation density provide the first rung in a "density ladder" that connects terrestrial experiments to astronomical observations.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-05 Brendan T. Reed , F. J. Fattoyev , C. J. Horowitz , J. Piekarewicz

Using the new results on coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering data in cesium-iodide provided by the COHERENT experiment, we determine a new measurement of the average neutron rms radius of $^{133}\text{Cs}$ and $^{127}\text{I}$. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 M. Cadeddu , N. Cargioli , F. Dordei , C. Giunti , Y. F. Li , E. Picciau , C. A. Ternes , Y. Y. Zhang

Empirically determined values of the nuclear volume and surface symmetry energy coefficients from nuclear masses are expressed in terms of density distributions of nucleons in heavy nuclei in the local density approximation. This is then…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 B. K. Agrawal , J. N. De , S. K. Samaddar , G. Colo , A. Sulaksono

Background: The density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy is crucial in determining several properties of finite nuclei to the neutron stars with mass $\sim$ 1.4 $M_\odot$. The values of neutron skin thickness, isovector giant dipole…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-23 T. Ghosh , Sangeeta , G. Saxena , B. K. Agrawal , Ushasi Datta

We try to constraints some of the nuclear matter parameters such as symmetry energy ($J$) and its slope ($L$) from the recent inferred data of the PREX-2. Other nuclear matter parameters are adopted from {\bf [Phys. Rev. C 85 035201 (2012),…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-27 S. K. Biswal , H. C. Das , Ankit Kumar , S. K. Patra

What can we learn about the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy $E_{\rm{sym}}(\rho )$ from precise measurements of the radius ($R_{\rm{1.4}}$) and/or tidal polarizability ($\Lambda_{1.4}$) of canonical neutron stars (NSs) with a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-28 Nai-Bo Zhang , Bao-An Li

The nuclear symmetry energy characterizes the variation of the binding energy as the neutron to proton ratio of nuclear systems (e.g. finite nucleus, neutron star etc.) is varied. The densities associated to these nuclear systems vary over…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-24 Chiranjib Mondal

A recently proposed density-dependent van der Waals model, with only $4$ free parameters adjusted to fix binding energy, saturation density, symmetry energy, and incompressibility, is analyzed under symmetric and asymmetric nuclear matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-02-07 M. Dutra , B. M. Santos , O. Lourenço

The large imbalance in the neutron and proton densities in very neutron rich systems increases the nuclear symmetry energy so that it governs many aspects of neutron stars and their mergers. Extracting the density dependence of the symmetry…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-06-01 W. G. Lynch , M. B. Tsang

Recent analysis of the isospin diffusion data from heavy-ion collisions based on an isospin- and momentum-dependent transport model with in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross sections has led to the extraction of a value of $L=88\pm 25$ MeV for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Lie-Wen Chen , Che Ming Ko , Bao-An Li

The nuclear matter parameters define the nuclear equation of state (EoS), they appear as coefficients of expansion around the saturation density of symmetric and asymmetric nuclear matter. We review their correlations with several…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 B. K. Agrawal , Tuhin Malik , J. N. De , S. K. Samaddar

Charge radii of mirror nuclei are calculated by implementing pairing effects with the Hartree-Fock Bogoliubov approximation. Correlations between the difference of charge radii ($\Delta R_{ch}$) and slope of nuclear symmetry energy (L) are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-01-30 Sakshi Gautam , Anagh Venneti , Sarmistha Banik , Bijay Agrawal

The CREX and PREX-II measurements of the neutron-skin thickness of 48Ca and 208Pb challenge standard nuclear energy-density functional (EDF) descriptions of nuclei and nuclear matter. We show that the apparent tension arises from an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-27 P. Papakonstantinou

Background: Neutron-skin thickness is an excellent indicator of isovector properties of atomic nuclei. As such, it correlates strongly with observables in finite nuclei that depend on neutron-to-proton imbalance and the nuclear symmetry…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Kortelainen , J. Erler , W. Nazarewicz , N. Birge , Y. Gao , E. Olsen

We establish a correlation for the symmetry energy at saturation density $S_{0}$, slope parameter $L$ and curvature parameter $K_{\text{sym}}$ based on widely different mean field interactions. With the help of this correlation and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-09-11 Jianmin Dong , Wei Zuo , Jianzhong Gu , Umberto Lombardo

An experimentally constrained equation of state of neutron-rich matter is fundamental for the physics of nuclei and the astrophysics of neutron stars, mergers, core-collapse supernova explosions and the synthesis of heavy elements. To this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-03 T. Aumann , C. A. Bertulani , F. Schindler , S. Typel

We describe a relation between the symmetry energy coefficients c_sym(rho) of nuclear matter and a_sym(A) of finite nuclei that accommodates other correlations of nuclear properties with the low-density behavior of c_sym(rho). Here we take…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-03-26 M. Centelles , X. Roca-Maza , X. Vinas , M. Warda