Symmetry energy of super-dense neutron-rich matter from integrating barotropic pressures in neutron stars and heavy-ion reactions

Within the minimum model of neutron stars (NS) consisting of neutrons, protons and electrons, a new approach is proposed for inferring the symmetry energy of super-dense neutron-rich nucleonic matter above twice the saturation density ρ0 of nuclear matter directly from integrating iteratively barotr...

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Main Authors: Bao-An Li, Wen-Jie Xie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-07-01
Series:Physics Letters B
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026932030321X