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 …

Nuclear density functional theory

G Colò - Advances in Physics: X, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The goal of nuclear structure physics is to provide a complete understanding of the static
properties of atomic nuclei, their excitation spectra, their response to external fields and their …

Equation of state for dense nucleonic matter from metamodeling. I. Foundational aspects

J Margueron, R Hoffmann Casali, F Gulminelli - Physical Review C, 2018 - APS
Metamodeling for the nucleonic equation of state (EOS), inspired from a Taylor expansion
around the saturation density of symmetric nuclear matter, is proposed and parameterized in …

Skyrme interaction and nuclear matter constraints

M Dutra, O Lourenço, JS Sá Martins, A Delfino… - Physical Review C …, 2012 - APS
This paper presents a detailed assessment of the ability of the 240 Skyrme interaction
parameter sets in the literature to satisfy a series of criteria derived from macroscopic …

Further explorations of Skyrme-Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov mass formulas. XIII. The 2012 atomic mass evaluation and the symmetry coefficient

S Goriely, N Chamel, JM Pearson - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2013 - APS
Our family of three Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) mass models, labeled BSk19, BSk20,
and BSk21, is here extended by (a) refitting to the 2012 Atomic Mass Evaluation (AME), and …

Further explorations of Skyrme-Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov mass formulas. XII. Stiffness and stability of neutron-star matter

S Goriely, N Chamel, JM Pearson - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2010 - APS
We construct three new Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) mass models, labeled HFB-19, HFB-
20, and HFB-21, with unconventional Skyrme forces containing t 4 and t 5 terms, ie, density …

Neutron skin thickness from the measured electric dipole polarizability in , , and

X Roca-Maza, X Vinas, M Centelles, BK Agrawal… - Physical Review C, 2015 - APS
The information on the symmetry energy and its density dependence is deduced by
comparing the available data on the electric dipole polarizability α D of Ni 68, Sn 120, and …

Variations on a theme by Skyrme: A systematic study of adjustments of model parameters

P Klüpfel, PG Reinhard, TJ Bürvenich… - Physical Review C …, 2009 - APS
We present a survey of the phenomenological adjustment of the parameters of the Skyrme-
Hartree-Fock (SHF) model for a self-consistent description of nuclear structure and low …

Density slope of the nuclear symmetry energy from the neutron skin thickness of heavy nuclei

LW Chen, CM Ko, BA Li, J Xu - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2010 - APS
Expressing explicitly the parameters of the standard Skyrme interaction in terms of the
macroscopic properties of asymmetric nuclear matter, we show in the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock …

[HTML][HTML] Symmetry energy II: Isobaric analog states

P Danielewicz, J Lee - Nuclear Physics A, 2014 - Elsevier
Using excitation energies to isobaric analog states (IAS) and charge invariance, we extract
nuclear symmetry coefficients, representing a mass formula, on a nucleus-by-nucleus basis …