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 …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Progress in constraining nuclear symmetry energy using neutron star observables since GW170817

BA Li, BJ Cai, WJ Xie, NB Zhang - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
The density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy is among the most uncertain parts of
the Equation of State (EOS) of dense neutron-rich nuclear matter. It is currently poorly known …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Probing high-momentum protons and neutrons in neutron-rich nuclei

Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The atomic nucleus is one of the densest and most complex quantum-mechanical systems
in nature. Nuclei account for nearly all the mass of the visible Universe. The properties of …

Thermal effects in binary neutron star mergers

J Fields, A Prakash, M Breschi, D Radice… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the impact of finite-temperature effects in numerical-relativity simulations of binary
neutron star mergers with microphysical equations of state and neutrino transport in which …

GW190814's secondary component with mass 2.50–2.67 M⊙ as a superfast pulsar

NB Zhang, BA Li - The Astrophysical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We use Stergioulas's RNS code for investigating fast pulsars with equations of state (EOSs)
on the causality surface (where the speed of sound is equal to that of light) of the high …

Many-body factorization and position–momentum equivalence of nuclear short-range correlations

R Cruz-Torres, D Lonardoni, R Weiss, M Piarulli… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
While mean-field approximations, such as the nuclear shell model, provide a good
description of many bulk nuclear properties, they fail to capture the important effects of …

Combined constraints on the equation of state of dense neutron-rich matter from terrestrial nuclear experiments and observations of neutron stars

NB Zhang, BA Li, J Xu - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Within the parameter space of the equation of state (EOS) of dense neutron-rich matter
limited by existing constraints mainly from terrestrial nuclear experiments, we investigate …