Neutron stars and the nuclear equation of state

GF Burgio, HJ Schulze, I Vidaña, JB Wei - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
We review the current status and recent progress of microscopic many-body approaches
and phenomenological models, which are employed to construct the equation of state of …

Equations of state for supernovae and compact stars

M Oertel, M Hempel, T Klähn, S Typel - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
A review is given of various theoretical approaches for the equation of state (EoS) of dense
matter, relevant for the description of core-collapse supernovae, compact stars, and compact …

Precision Determination of the Neutral Weak Form Factor of

D Adhikari, H Albataineh, D Androic, KA Aniol… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
We report a precise measurement of the parity-violating (PV) asymmetry A PV in the elastic
scattering of longitudinally polarized electrons from Ca 48. We measure A PV= 2668±106 …

Implications of PREX-2 on the equation of state of neutron-rich matter

BT Reed, FJ Fattoyev, CJ Horowitz, J Piekarewicz - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Laboratory experiments sensitive to the equation of state of neutron rich matter in the vicinity
of nuclear saturation density provide the first rung in a “density ladder” that connects …

Ab initio predictions link the neutron skin of 208Pb to nuclear forces

B Hu, W Jiang, T Miyagi, Z Sun, A Ekström, C Forssén… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Heavy atomic nuclei have an excess of neutrons over protons, which leads to the formation
of a neutron skin whose thickness is sensitive to details of the nuclear force. This links …

Impact of the PSR radius constraint on the properties of high-density matter

I Legred, K Chatziioannou, R Essick, S Han, P Landry - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
X-ray pulse profile modeling of PSR J 0740+ 6620, the most massive known pulsar, with
data from the NICER and XMM-Newton observatories recently led to a measurement of its …

Astrophysical Constraints on the Symmetry Energy and the Neutron Skin of with Minimal Modeling Assumptions

R Essick, I Tews, P Landry, A Schwenk - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
The symmetry energy and its density dependence are crucial inputs for many nuclear
physics and astrophysics applications, as they determine properties ranging from the …

Constraints on nuclear symmetry energy parameters

JM Lattimer - Particles, 2023 - mdpi.com
A review is made of constraints on the nuclear symmetry energy parameters arising from
nuclear binding energy measurements, theoretical chiral effective field predictions of …

GW190814: Impact of a 2.6 solar mass neutron star on the nucleonic equations of state

FJ Fattoyev, CJ Horowitz, J Piekarewicz, B Reed - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
Is the secondary component of GW190814 the lightest black hole or the heaviest neutron
star ever discovered in a double compact-object system [Abbott et al. Astrophys. J. 896, L44 …

Information Content of the Parity-Violating Asymmetry in

PG Reinhard, X Roca-Maza, W Nazarewicz - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
The parity-violating asymmetry A PV in Pb 208, recently measured by the PREX-2
Collaboration, is studied using modern relativistic (covariant) and nonrelativistic energy …