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We develop an improved Statistical Multifragmentation Model that provides the capability to calculate calorimetric and isotopic observables with precision. With this new model we examine the influence of nuclear isospin on the fragment…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 W. P. Tan , S. R. Souza , R. J. Charity , R. Donangelo , W. G. Lynch , M. B. Tsang

Recent analyses of several isospin effects in heavy-ion reactions have allowed us to constrain the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy at sub-saturation densities within a narrow range. Combined with constraints on the Equation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-06-24 Bao-An Li , Lie-Wen Chen , Che Ming Ko , Plamen G. Krastev , Aaron Worley

In this paper we investigate isospin transport mechanisms in semi-peripheral collisions at Fermi energies. The effects of the formation of a low density region (neck) between the two reaction partners and of pre-equilibrium emission on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Baran , M. Colonna , M. Di Toro , M. Zielinska-Pfabe , H. H. Wolter

When energy of colliding nuclei is between 100-600 MeV/nucleon then multifragmentation take place. By studying the fragments (at final stage of reaction) we can seize the idea about initial condition and various other parameter which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-12-15 Rubina Bansal , Suneel Kumar

We discuss fragmentation mechanisms and isospin transport occurring in central collisions between neutron rich systems at Fermi energies. In particular, isospin effects are analyzed looking at the correlations between fragment isotopic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Colonna , J. Rizzo , Ph. Chomaz , M. Di Toro

We present the self-consistent, non-perturbative analysis of isospin mixing using the nuclear density functional approach and the rediagonalization of the Coulomb interaction in the good-isospin basis. The largest isospin-breaking effects…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-02 W. Satula , J. Dobaczewski , W. Nazarewicz , M. Rafalski

Isotopic distributions for light particles and intermediate mass fragments have been measured for 112Sn+112Sn, 112Sn+124Sn, 124Sn+112Sn and 124Sn+124Sn collisions at E/A=50 MeV. Isotope, isotone and isobar yield ratios are utilized to…

Within an isospin and momentum dependent transport model, the dynamics of isospin particles (nucleons and light clusters) in Fermi-energy heavy-ion collisions are investigated for constraining the isospin splitting of nucleon effective mass…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-09-15 Ya-Fei Guo , Peng-Hui Chen , Fei Niu , Hong-Fei Zhang , Gen-Ming Jin , Zhao-Qing Feng

We investigate in detail the momentum dependence ($MD$) of the effective in medium Nucleon-Nucleon ($NN$) interaction in the isovector channel. We focus the discussion on transport properties of the expected neutron-proton ($n/p$) effective…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Rizzo , M. Colonna , M. Di Toro , V. Greco

The neutron-proton differential flow is shown to be a very useful probe of the isospin-dependence of the nuclear equation of state (EOS). This novel approach utilizes constructively both the isospin fractionation and the nuclear collective…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Bao-An Li

We studied the influence of a momentum dependent interaction in the context of isopspin effects on fragmentation and dissipation in intermediate energy heavy ion collisions by using an isospin dependent quantum molecular dynamics model. It…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Jian-Ye Liu , Wen-Jun Guo , Yong Zhong Xing , Wei Zou , Xi-Guo Lee

During the fission process, the nucleus deforms and elongates up to the two fragments inception and their final separation at scission deformation. The evolution of the nucleus energy with deformation is determined by the macroscopic…

This paper focuses on the isospin properties of the asymmetric nuclear-matter liquid-gas phase transition analyzed in a mean-field approach, using Skyrme effective interactions. We compare two different mechanisms of phase separation for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Camille Ducoin , Philippe Chomaz , Francesca Gulminelli

Thermal properties of asymmetric nuclear matter, including the temperature dependence of the symmetry energy, single-particle properties, and differential isospin fractionation, are investigated with different neutron-proton effective mass…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-23 Jun Xu , Lie-Wen Chen , Bao-An Li

Properties of effective interactions in neutron-rich matter are reflected in the medium's equation of state (EOS), which is a relationship among several state variables. Spin and isospin asymmetries play an important role in the energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-10-03 Plamen G. Krastev , Francesca Sammarruca , Bao-An Li , Aaron Worley

The isospin-dependence of mechanical and chemical instabilities is investigated within a thermal and nuclear transport model using a Skyrme-type phenomenological equation of state for neutron-rich matter. Respective roles of the nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Bao-An Li , Andrew T. Sustich , Matt Tilley , Bin Zhang

We present new features of the transition from nuclear multifragmentation to neck fragmentation in semi-central heavy-ion collisions at Fermi energies as obtained within a microscopic transport model, Stochastic Mean Field (SMF). We show…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-05-25 V. Baran , M. Colonna , M. Di Toro , R. Zus

We show new data from the $^{64}$Ni+$^{124}$Sn and $^{58}$Ni+$^{112}$Sn reactions studied in direct kinematics with the CHIMERA detector at INFN-LNS and compared with the reverse kinematics reactions at the same incident beam energy (35 A…

We have, recently, shown that the general trends of partition-wise fission fragment mass distribution in heavy ion (HI) induced compound nuclear (CN) fission of heavy nuclei can be reproduced reasonably well by using the concept of isospin…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-06-21 Swati Garg , Ashok Kumar Jain

We try to single out some qualitative new effects of the coupling to the $\delta$-isovector-scalar meson introduced in a minimal way in a phenomenological hadronic field theory. Results for the equation of state ($EOS$) and the phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 B. Liu , V. Greco , V. Baran , M. Colonna , M. Di Toro