Dense nuclear matter equation of state from heavy-ion collisions

A Sorensen, K Agarwal, KW Brown, Z Chajęcki… - Progress in Particle and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The nuclear equation of state (EOS) is at the center of numerous theoretical and
experimental efforts in nuclear physics. With advances in microscopic theories for nuclear …

Transport model comparison studies of intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions

H Wolter, M Colonna, D Cozma, P Danielewicz… - Progress in Particle and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Transport models are the main method to obtain physics information on the nuclear equation
of state and in-medium properties of particles from low to relativistic-energy heavy-ion …

Probing the symmetry energy with the spectral pion ratio

J Estee, WG Lynch, CY Tsang, J Barney, G Jhang… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
Many neutron star properties, such as the proton fraction, reflect the symmetry energy
contributions to the equation of state that dominate when neutron and proton densities differ …

The equation of state of hot, dense matter and neutron stars

JM Lattimer, M Prakash - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
Recent developments in the theory of pure neutron matter and experiments concerning the
symmetry energy of nuclear matter, coupled with recent measurements of high-mass …

Towards understanding astrophysical effects of nuclear symmetry energy

BA Li, PG Krastev, DH Wen, NB Zhang - The European Physical Journal A, 2019 - Springer
Determining the Equation of State (EOS) of dense neutron-rich nuclear matter is a shared
goal of both nuclear physics and astrophysics. Except possible phase transitions, the density …

Constraining the symmetry parameters of the nuclear interaction

JM Lattimer, Y Lim - The Astrophysical Journal, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Neutron star observations: Prognosis for equation of state constraints

JM Lattimer, M Prakash - Physics reports, 2007 - Elsevier
We investigate how current and proposed observations of neutron stars can lead to an
understanding of the state of their interiors and the key unknowns: the typical neutron star …

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 …

Isospin asymmetry in nuclei and neutron stars

AW Steiner, M Prakash, JM Lattimer, PJ Ellis - Physics reports, 2005 - Elsevier
The roles of isospin asymmetry in nuclei and neutron stars are investigated using a range of
potential and field-theoretical models of nucleonic matter. The parameters of these models …

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 …