1-10 Density-dependent Symmetry Energy at Subsaturation Densities

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2014-01-11
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Thesymmetryenergywhichcharacterizestheisospindependenceoftheequationofstateofasymmetricnuclearmatter,playsacrucialroleinunderstandingavarietyofissuesinnuclearphysicsandastrophysics,suchasheavyioncollisions,exoticnuclei,stabilityofsuperheavynuclei,fusioncrosssections,thestructures,compositionandcoolingofneutronstars[1??5].Muchtheoreticalandexperimentalefforthasbeenmadetoconstrainthedensitydependenceofsymmetryenergy.Uptonow,wehavegotsomebasicknowledgeaboutthesymmetryenergyatlowdensities,whileathighdensitiesweevendonotknowitsvariationtendencyasafunctionofdensity.Theproblemremainsunsolvedduetothedifficultyofnucleon-nucleoninteractionsandmany-bodyproblems.