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 …

Reaction dynamics with exotic nuclei

V Baran, M Colonna, V Greco, M Di Toro - Physics Reports, 2005 - Elsevier
We review the new possibilities offered by the reaction dynamics of asymmetric heavy-ion
collisions, using stable and unstable beams. We show that it represents a rather unique tool …

Isospin diffusion and the nuclear symmetry energy in heavy ion reactions

MB Tsang, TX Liu, L Shi, P Danielewicz, CK Gelbke… - Physical review …, 2004 - APS
Using symmetric S n 112+ S n 112, S n 124+ S n 124 collisions as references, we probe
isospin diffusion in peripheral asymmetric S n 112+ S n 124, S n 124+ S n 112 systems at an …

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 …

Effect of the symmetry energy on nuclear stopping and its relation to the production of light charged fragments

S Kumar, S Kumar, RK Puri - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2010 - APS
We present a complete systematics (excitation function, impact parameter, system size,
isospin asymmetry, and equations of state dependences) of global stopping and fragment …

Isospin tracing: A probe of nonequilibrium in central heavy-ion collisions

F Rami, Y Leifels, B De Schauenburg, A Gobbi… - Physical review …, 2000 - APS
Four different combinations of 44 96 Ru and 40 96 Zr nuclei, both as projectile and target,
were investigated at the same bombarding energy of 4 0 0 A MeV using a 4 π detector. The …

Nuclear stopping as a probe for in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross sections in intermediate energy heavy ion collisions

JY Liu, WJ Guo, SJ Wang, W Zuo, Q Zhao, YF Yang - Physical Review Letters, 2001 - APS
Using an isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics, nuclear stopping in intermediate
heavy ion collisions has been studied. The calculation has been done for colliding systems …

Isospin dependence of intermediate mass fragment production in heavy-ion collisions at E/A=55 MeV

JF Dempsey, RJ Charity, LG Sobotka, GJ Kunde, S Gaff… - Physical Review C, 1996 - APS
The production of intermediate mass fragments (IMF's) from the four reactions 55A MeV Xe 1
2 4, 1 3 6+ Sn 1 1 2, 1 2 4 is studied with an experimental apparatus which is highly efficient …

Isospin dependence of collective transverse flow in nuclear collisions

R Pak, W Benenson, O Bjarki, JA Brown… - Physical review …, 1997 - APS
Collective transverse flow of nuclear matter was measured as a function of the ratio of
neutrons to protons (N/Z) of the interacting system for the first time. The collisions of three …

Isospin dependence of collective flow in heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies

BA Li, Z Ren, CM Ko, SJ Yennello - Physical review letters, 1996 - APS
Within the framework of an isospin-dependent Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck model using
initial proton and neutron densities calculated from the nonlinear relativistic mean-field …