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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

New energy-density functionals (EDFs) inspired by effective-field theories (EFTs) have been recently proposed. The present work focuses on three of such functionals which were developed to produce satisfactory equations of state for nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Jérémy Bonnard , Marcella Grasso , Denis Lacroix

A new scheme for testing nuclear matter equations of state (EsoS) at high densities using constraints from neutron star phenomenology and a flow data analysis of heavy-ion collisions is suggested. An acceptable EoS shall not allow the…

We investigate how the transition density \(\rho_{tr}\) affects hybrid constructions of the neutron-star equation of state (EoS) in which a nucleonic description at low densities is matched to a model-agnostic high-density extension based…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 N. K. Patra , Sk Md Adil Imam , Kai Zhou

Nuclear matter is studied within the Density Functional Theory (DFT) framework. Our method employs a finite number of nucleons in a box subject to periodic boundary conditions, in order to simulate infinite matter and study its response to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Francesco Marino , Gianluca Colò , Xavier Roca-Maza , Enrico Vigezzi

The systematic investigation of the ground state and fission properties of even-even actinides and superheavy nuclei with $Z=90-120$ from the two-proton up to two-neutron drip lines with proper assessment of systematic theoretical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-03-09 A. Taninah , S. E. Agbemava , A. V. Afanasjev

The EOS of strongly interacting matter at densities ten to fifteen orders of magnitude larger than the typical density of terrestrial macroscopic objects determines a number of neutron star properties, including the pattern of gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Omar Benhar

We construct the equation of state (EOS) in a wide density range for neutron stars using the relativistic mean field theory. The properties of neutron star matter with both uniform and non-uniform distributions are studied consistently. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Shen

Neutron stars are compact objects of large interest in the nuclear astrophysics community. The extreme conditions present in such systems impose big challenges to our current microscopic models of nuclear structure. Equation of states (EoS)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-01 Ronaldo V. Lobato , Emanuel V. Chimanski , Carlos A. Bertulani

Core-collapse simulations of massive stars are performed using the equation of state (EOS) based on the microscopic variational calculation with realistic nuclear forces. The progenitor models with the initial masses of $15M_\odot$,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Ken'ichiro Nakazato , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Hajime Togashi

The non-radial oscillations of the neutron stars (NSs) have been suggested as a useful tool to probe the composition of neutron star matter (NSM). With this scope in mind, we consider a large number of equations of states (EOSs) that are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-16 Deepak Kumar , Tuhin Malik , Hiranmaya Mishra , Constança Providência

Neutron stars are commonly considered as astronomical objects having highdensity interiors and an inner core region in which various hadronic matter phases are expected. Several studies show that the inner structures affect macroscopic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Tomoki Endo

We study the order-by-order expansion of the energy per particle of asymmetric nuclear matter up to twice saturation density in chiral effective field theory (EFT) within a Bayesian framework. For this, we develop a two-dimensional Gaussian…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-13 H. Göttling , L. Hoff , K. Hebeler , A. Schwenk

We investigate constraints on the high-density equation of state (EOS) of neutron star matter by analyzing the probability distributions of the endpoints of mass-radius M(R) sequences within a Bayesian weighting framework. Starting from two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-04 Gábor Kasza , György Wolf

Neutron star (NS) is a unique astronomical compact object where the four fundamental interactions have been revealed from the observation and studied in different ways. While the macroscopic properties of NS like mass and radius can be…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-04 Ngo Hai Tan , Dao T. Khoa , Doan Thi Loan

Dark matter admixed neutron stars (DANSs) serve as a specific astrophysical laboratory for probing the features of dark matter (DM) and have emerged as a promising candidate for interpreting recent astrophysical observations (e.g., by NICER…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-30 Jing Fu Hu , Hang Lu , Bao Yuan Sun

In astrophysics as well as in hadron physics progress has recently been made on the determination of the hadronic equation of state (EOS) of compressed matter. The results are contradictory, however. Simulations of heavy ion reactions are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Ch. Hartnack , H. Oeschler , Jörg Aichelin

The Equation of State (EoS) of dense matter represents a central issue in the study of compact astrophysical objects and heavy ion reactions at intermediate and relativistic energies. We have derived a nuclear EoS with nucleons and hyperons…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Fiorella Burgio

In this work we calculate the total mass, radius, moment of inertia, and surface gravitational redshift for neutron stars using various equations of state (EOS). Modern meson-exchange potential models are used to evaluate the $G$-matrix for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 L. Engvik , G. Bao , M. Hjorth-Jensen , E. Osnes , E. Oestaard

Recent observations of neutron stars with gravitational waves and X-ray timing provide unprecedented access to the equation of state (EoS) of cold dense matter at densities difficult to realize in terrestrial experiments. At the same time,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-10 Reed Essick , Ingo Tews , Philippe Landry , Sanjay Reddy , Daniel E. Holz