Circumstantial Evidence for a Soft Nuclear Symmetry Energy at Suprasaturation Densities
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- 13 February 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 102 (6), 062502
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.102.062502
Abstract
Within an isospin- and momentum-dependent hadronic transport model, it is shown that the recent FOPI data on the ratio in central heavy-ion collisions at SIS/GSI energies [Willy Reisdorf et al., Nucl. Phys. A 781, 459 (2007)] provide circumstantial evidence suggesting a rather soft nuclear symmetry energy at compared to the Akmal-Pandharipande-Ravenhall prediction. Some astrophysical implications and the need for further experimental confirmations are discussed.
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