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 …

Properties of nuclear pastas

JA López, CO Dorso, G Frank - Frontiers of Physics, 2021 - Springer
In this review we study the nuclear pastas as they are expected to be formed in neutron star
crusts. We start with a study of the pastas formed in nuclear matter (composed of protons …

Density dependence of the symmetry energy and the nuclear equation of state: A dynamical and statistical model perspective

DV Shetty, SJ Yennello, GA Souliotis - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2007 - APS
The density dependence of the symmetry energy in the equation of state of isospin
asymmetric nuclear matter is of significant importance for studying the structure of systems …

Topological characterization of neutron star crusts

CO Dorso, PA Giménez Molinelli, JA López - Physical Review C—Nuclear …, 2012 - APS
Neutron star crusts are studied using a classical molecular dynamics model developed for
heavy-ion reactions. After the model is shown to produce a plethora of the so-called pasta …

Probing isospin-and momentum-dependent nuclear effective interactions in neutron-rich matter

LW Chen, CM Ko, BA Li, C Xu, J Xu - The European Physical Journal A, 2014 - Springer
The single-particle potential for nucleons and hyperons in neutron-rich matter generally
depends on the density and isospin asymmetry of the medium as well as the momentum and …

Temperature effects on the nuclear symmetry energy and symmetry free energy with an isospin and momentum dependent interaction

J Xu, LW Chen, BA Li, HR Ma - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2007 - APS
Within a self-consistent thermal model using an isospin and momentum dependent
interaction (MDI) constrained by the isospin diffusion data in heavy-ion collisions, we …

Isoscaling in central Sn+ Sn collisions at 270 MeV/u

JW Lee, MB Tsang, CY Tsang, R Wang… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
Experimental information on fragment emissions is important in understanding the dynamics
of nuclear collisions and in the development of transport model simulating heavy-ion …

Isocaling and the symmetry energy in the multifragmentation regime of heavy-ion collisions

Z Chen, S Kowalski, M Huang, R Wada, T Keutgen… - Physical Review C …, 2010 - APS
The ratio of the symmetry energy coefficient to temperature, a sym/T, in Fermi energy heavy-
ion collisions, was experimentally extracted as a function of the fragment atomic number …

Beyond nuclear “pasta”: Phase transitions and neutrino opacity of new “pasta” phases

PN Alcain, PA Giménez Molinelli, CO Dorso - Physical Review C, 2014 - APS
In this work, we focus on different length scales within the dynamics of nucleons in
conditions according to the neutron star crust, with a semiclassical molecular dynamics …

[HTML][HTML] Simulations of cold nuclear matter at sub-saturation densities

PAG Molinelli, JI Nichols, JA López, CO Dorso - Nuclear Physics A, 2014 - Elsevier
Ideal nuclear matter is expected to undergo a first order phase transition at the
thermodynamic limit. At such phase transitions the size of density fluctuations (bubbles or …