Recent progress and new challenges in isospin physics with heavy-ion reactions

BA Li, LW Chen, CM Ko - Physics Reports, 2008 - Elsevier
The ultimate goal of studying isospin physics via heavy-ion reactions with neutron-rich,
stable and/or radioactive nuclei is to explore the isospin dependence of in-medium nuclear …

Nuclear equation of state from ground and collective excited state properties of nuclei

X Roca-Maza, N Paar - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2018 - Elsevier
This contribution reviews the present status on the available constraints to the nuclear
equation of state (EoS) around saturation density from nuclear structure calculations on …

Skyrme interaction and nuclear matter constraints

M Dutra, O Lourenço, JS Sá Martins, A Delfino… - Physical Review C …, 2012 - APS
This paper presents a detailed assessment of the ability of the 240 Skyrme interaction
parameter sets in the literature to satisfy a series of criteria derived from macroscopic …

New parametrization for the nuclear covariant energy density functional with a point-coupling interaction

PW Zhao, ZP Li, JM Yao, J Meng - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2010 - APS
A new parametrization PC-PK1 for the nuclear covariant energy density functional with
nonlinear point-coupling interaction is proposed by fitting to observables of 60 selected …

Relativistic mean-field hadronic models under nuclear matter constraints

M Dutra, O Lourenço, SS Avancini, BV Carlson… - Physical Review C, 2014 - APS
Background: The microscopic composition and properties of infinite hadronic matter at a
wide range of densities and temperatures have been subjects of intense investigation for …

Relativistic nuclear energy density functionals: Adjusting parameters to binding energies

T Nikšić, D Vretenar, P Ring - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2008 - APS
We study a particular class of relativistic nuclear energy density functionals in which only
nucleon degrees of freedom are explicitly used in the construction of effective interaction …

Nuclear symmetry energy probed by neutron skin thickness of nuclei

M Centelles, X Roca-Maza, X Vinas, M Warda - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
We describe a relation between the symmetry energy coefficients c sym (ρ) of nuclear matter
and a sym (A) of finite nuclei that accommodates other correlations of nuclear properties with …

Nucleon effective masses in neutron-rich matter

BA Li, BJ Cai, LW Chen, J Xu - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2018 - Elsevier
Various kinds of isovector nucleon effective masses are used in the literature to characterize
the momentum/energy dependence of the nucleon symmetry potential or self-energy due to …

Building relativistic mean field models for finite nuclei and neutron stars

WC Chen, J Piekarewicz - Physical Review C, 2014 - APS
Background: Theoretical approaches based on density functional theory provide the only
tractable method to incorporate the wide range of densities and isospin asymmetries …

A way forward in the study of the symmetry energy: experiment, theory, and observation

CJ Horowitz, EF Brown, Y Kim, WG Lynch… - Journal of Physics G …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The symmetry energy describes how the energy of nuclear matter rises as one goes away
from equal numbers of neutrons and protons. This is very important to describe neutron rich …