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The density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy remains poorly constrained. Starting from precise empirical values of the nuclear volume and surface symmetry energy coefficients and the nuclear saturation density, we show how in the ambit…

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The low-energy parameters describing the np scattering in the 3S1 + 3D1 partial waves, the deuteron parameters, and their relations are discussed. These parameters can be determined quite accurately in the energy-dependent Nijmegen…

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We analyze the neutron skin thickness in finite nuclei with the droplet model and effective nuclear interactions. The ratio of the bulk symmetry energy J to the so-called surface stiffness coefficient Q has in the droplet model a prominent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-01 M. Warda , X. Vinas , X. Roca-Maza , M. Centelles

We calculate the subthreshold production of antiprotons in the Lorentz-covariant RBUU approach employing a weighted testparticle method to treat the antiproton propagation and absorption nonperturbatively. We find that the pbar differential…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Stefan Teis , Wolfgang Cassing , Tomoyuki Maruyama , Ulrich Mosel

Nuclear mass measurements and neutron matter theory tightly constrain the nuclear symmetry energy parameters $J$, $L$, $K_{sym}$ and $Q_{sym}$. Corroboration of these constraints on $J$ and $L$ can be found from measurements of the neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-17 James M. Lattimer

The isoscalar and isovector particle densities and the surface tension coefficients at the average binding energy are used to derive analytical expressions of the neutron skin thickness and the isovector stiffness of sharp edged…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 J. P. Blocki , A. G. Magner , P. Ring , A. A. Vlasenko

Forthcoming fixed-target coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering experiments aim at measurements with $\cal{O}(\text{tonne})$-scale detectors and substantially reduced systematic and statistical uncertainties. With such high quality…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-30 D. Aristizabal Sierra

Nucleon-Nucleon potentials are commonplace in nuclear physics and are determined from a finite number of experimental data with limited precision sampling the scattering process. We study the statistical assumptions implicit in the standard…

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The thermal X-ray spectra of several isolated neutron stars display deviations from a pure blackbody. The accurate physical interpretation of these spectral features bears profound implications for our understanding of the atmospheric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Daniele Viganò , Rosalba Perna , Nanda Rea , José A. Pons

We address the question of the role of low-energy nuclear physics data in constraining neutron star global properties, e.g., masses, radii, angular momentum, and tidal deformability, in the absence of a phase transition in dense matter. To…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-06 Brett V. Carlson , Mariana Dutra , Odilon Lourenço , Jérôme Margueron

Theoretical study of systematics of neutron scattering cross sections on various materials for neutron energies up to several hundred MeV are of practical importance. In this paper, we analysed various cross sections of neutron-nucleus…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Surya Narayan , Rajesh S. Gowda , S. Ganesan

Spectra of the spreading layers on the neutron star surface are calculated on the basis of the Inogamov-Sunyaev model taking into account general relativity correction to the surface gravity and considering various chemical composition of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Valery Suleimanov , Juri Poutanen

Investigation into the properties and structure of unstable nuclei far from stability remains a key avenue of research in modern nuclear physics. These efforts are motivated by the continual observation of unexpected structure phenomena in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-01-24 X. F. Yang , S. J. Wang , S. G. Wilkins , R. F. Garcia Ruiz

Expressing explicitly the parameters of the standard Skyrme interaction in terms of the macroscopic properties of asymmetric nuclear matter, we show in the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock approach that unambiguous correlations exist between observables…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-03-27 Lie-Wen Chen , Che Ming Ko , Bao-An Li , Jun Xu

[Background] In our earlier work {\bf [Phys. Rev. C 104, 055804 (2021)]}, we studied the surface properties of a neutron star, assuming it as a huge finite nucleus containing protons, neutrons, electrons, and muons. For the first time, we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-21 Ankit Kumar , H. C. Das , Jeet Amrit Pattnaik , S. K. Patra

Recently, the radius of neutron star (NS) PSR J0740+6620 was measured by Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) and an updated measurement of neutron skin thickness of ${}^{208}$Pb ($R_{\rm skin}^{208}$) was reported by the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-22 Shao-Peng Tang , Jin-Liang Jiang , Ming-Zhe Han , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

We study the stability of bound antiprotons in close proximity to the atomic nucleus. Using experimental data from X-ray spectroscopy measurements of antiprotonic atom transitions, we tune a minimal theoretical framework and estimate…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Fredrik Parnefjord Gustafsson , Daniel Pęcak , Tomasz Sowiński

Radio pulsar timing, X-ray pulse profile modeling or gravitational-wave detections of binary mergers involving at least one neutron star offer the opportunity to elucidate the properties of dense and neutron rich matter in thermodynamic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-08 Lami Suleiman , Anthea F. Fantina , Francesca Gulminelli , Jocelyn Read

The direct determination of the excitation level density and radiative strength functions of their exciting gamma-transitions is impossible for the larger part of the stable and long-life radioactive target nuclei. This circumstance is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-09-28 V. A. Khitrov , A. M. Sukhovoj , Pham Dinh Khang , Vuong Huu Tan , Nguyen Xuan Hai

One of the major uncertainties in the dense matter equation of state has been the nuclear symmetry energy. The density dependence of the symmetry energy is important in nuclear astrophysics, as it controls the neutronization of matter in…

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