Effects of Symmetry Energy on Two-Nucleon Correlation Functions in Heavy-Ion Collisions Induced by Neutron-Rich Nuclei
- 24 April 2003
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 90 (16), 162701
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.90.162701
Abstract
Using an isospin-dependent transport model, we study the effects of nuclear symmetry energy on two-nucleon correlation functions in heavy-ion collisions induced by neutron-rich nuclei. We find that the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy affects significantly the nucleon emission times in these collisions, leading to larger values of two-nucleon correlation functions for a symmetry energy that has a stronger density dependence. Two-nucleon correlation functions are thus useful tools for extracting information about the nuclear symmetry energy from heavy-ion collisions.Keywords
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