2005/05/31 by D. V. Shetty, S. J. Yennello, G. A. Souliotis · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Nuclear physics research studies #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #astro-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.75.034602
published as Phys.Rev.C75:034602,2007 · 4 pages, 3 figures, minor revison to the text, added few more references
arxiv created 2007/02/09 · openalex publication_date 2007/03/08 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The density dependence of the symmetry energy in the equation of state of isospin asymmetric nuclear matter is studied using the isoscaling of the fragment yields and the antisymmetrized molecular dynamic calculation. It is observed that the experimental data at low densities are consistent with the form of symmetry energy, Esym\ensuremath≈31.6(\ensuremathρ/\ensuremathρ○)0.69, in close agreement with those predicted by the results of variational many-body calculation. A comparison of the present result with those reported recently using the NSCL-MSU data suggests that the heavy ion studies favor a dependence of the form, Esym\ensuremath≈31.6(\ensuremathρ/\ensuremathρ○)^\ensuremathγ, where \ensuremathγ=0.6\ensuremath-1.05. This constrains the form of the density dependence of the symmetry energy at higher densities, ruling out an extremely ``stiff'' and ``soft'' dependences.