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nucl-th2020★ 6 cited

Critical properties of calibrated relativistic mean-field models for the transition to warm, non-homogeneous nuclear matter

Olfa Boukari, Helena Pais, Sofija Antić +1

The critical properties for the transition to warm, asymmetric, non-homogeneous nuclear matter are analysed within a thermodynamical spinodal approach for a set of well calibrated…

nucl-th2020★ 11 cited

Second virial coefficients of light nuclear clusters and their chemical freeze-out in nuclear collisions

K. A. Bugaev, O. V. Vitiuk, B. E. Grinyuk +13

Here we develop a new strategy to analyze the chemical freeze-out of light (anti)nuclei produced in high energy collisions of heavy atomic nuclei within an advanced version of the…

nucl-th2019★ 46 cited

Unveiling the nuclear matter EoS from neutron star properties: a supervised machine learning approach

Márcio Ferreira, Constança Providência

We explore supervised machine learning methods in extracting the non-linear maps between neutron stars (NS) observables and the equation of state (EoS) of nuclear matter. Using a T…

nucl-th2019★ 3 cited

On relation between bulk, surface and curvature parts of nuclear binding energy within the model of hexagonal clusters

V. V. Sagun, K. A. Bugaev, A. I. Ivanytskyi

Using the model of hexagonal clusters we express the surface, curvature and Gauss curvature coefficients of the nuclear binding energy in terms of its bulk coefficient. Using the d…

nucl-th2018★ 68 cited

What do we learn about vector interactions from GW170817?

Veronica Dexheimer, Rosana de Oliveira Gomes, Stefan Schramm +1

We analyze the role played by vector-isovector meson interaction in dense matter present in the interior of neutron stars in the light of new measurements made during the double ne…

nucl-th2018★ 7 cited

Stability of the neutron-proton-electron matter under strong magnetic fields: the covariant Vlasov approach

Sidney Avancini, B. P. Bertolino, Aziz Rabhi +3

The neutron-proton-electron(npe) matter under a strong magnetic field is studied in the context of the covariant Vlasov approach. We use a Walecka-type hadronic model and the dispe…

nucl-th2018★ 267 cited

GW170817: constraining the nuclear matter equation of state from the neutron star tidal deformability

Tuhin Malik, N. Alam, M. Fortin +5

Constraints set on key parameters of the nuclear matter equation of state (EoS) by the values of the tidal deformability, inferred from GW170817, are examined by using a diverse se…

nucl-th2018★ 33 cited

Light clusters in warm stellar matter: explicit mass shifts and universal cluster-meson couplings

Helena Pais, Francesca Gulminelli, Constança Providência +1

In-medium modifications of light cluster properties in warm stellar matter are studied within the relativistic mean-field approximation. In-medium effects are included by introduci…

nucl-th2017★ 13 cited

Warm unstable asymmetric nuclear matter: critical properties and the density dependence of the symmetry energy

N. Alam, H. Pais, C. Providência +1

The spinodal instabilities in hot asymmetric nuclear matter and some important critical parameters derived thereof are studied using six different families of relativistic mean-fie…

nucl-th2017★ 28 cited

Light Clusters and Pasta Phases in Warm and Dense Nuclear Matter

Sidney S. Avancini, Márcio Ferreira, Helena Pais +2

The pasta phases are calculated for warm stellar matter in a framework of relativistic mean-field models, including the possibility of light cluster formation. Results from three d…

nucl-th2016★ 18 cited

Pasta phases within the QMC model

Guilherme Grams, Alexandre M. Santos, Prafulla K. Panda +2

In this work the low density regions of nuclear and neutron star matter are studied. The search for the existence of pasta phases in this region is performed within the context of…

nucl-th2016★ 27 cited

Correlation of the neutron star crust-core properties with the slope of the symmetry energy and the lead skin thickness

H. Pais, A. Sulaksono, B. K. Agrawal +1

The correlations of the crust-core transition density and pressure in neutron stars with the slope of the symmetry energy and the neutron skin thickness are investigated, using dif…

nucl-th2016★ 2 cited

Velocity operator approach to quantum fluid dynamics in a three-dimensional neutron-proton system

Seiya Nishiyama, Joao da Providencia

In the preceeding paper, introducing isospin-dependent density operators and defining exact momenta (collective variables), we could get an exact canonically momenta approach to a…

nucl-th2016★ 16 cited

Single-particle spectral function of the hyperon in finite nuclei

Isaac Vidana

The spectral function of the hyperon in finite nuclei is calculated from the corresponding self-energy, which is constructed within a perturbative many-body approach using…

nucl-th2016★ 22 cited

Is the magnetic field making the inner crust of neutron stars more heterogeneous?

Jianjun Fang, Sidney Avancini, Helena Pais +1

We study the effect of strong magnetic fields, of the order of G, on the extension of the crust of magnetized neutron stars. The dynamical instability region of n…

nucl-th2016★ 26 cited

Neutron stars: from the inner crust to the core with the (Extended) Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model

Helena Pais, Débora P. Menezes, Constança Providência

Nucleonic matter is described within a su(2) extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. Several parametrizations with different nuclear matter saturation properties are proposed. At subsat…

nucl-th2016★ 69 cited

Hyperons in neutron stars and supernova cores

M. Oertel, F. Gulminelli, C. Providencia +1

The properties of compact stars and their formation processes depend on many physical ingredients. The composition and the thermodynamics of the involved matter is one of them. We…

nucl-th2015★ 6 cited

QMC approach based on the Bogoliubov independent quark model of the nucleon

Henrik Bohr, Steven A. Moszkowski, Prafulla K. Panda +2

The quark-meson coupling model due to Guichon is formulated on the basis of the independent quark model of the nucleon proposed by Bogoliubov and is applied to the phenomenological…

nucl-th2015★ 261 cited

Do hyperons exist in the interior of neutron stars ?

Debarati Chatterjee, Isaac Vidana

In this work we review the role of hyperons on the properties of neutron and proto-neutron stars. In particular, we revise the so-called "hyperon puzzle", go over some of the solut…

nucl-th2015★ 25 cited

Hyperons in Neutron Stars

Isaac Vidana

In this work I briefly review some of the effects of hyperons on the properties of neutron and proto-neutron stars. In particular, I revise the problem of the strong softening of t…

nucl-th2015★ 8 cited

Neutrino diffusion in the pasta phase matter within the Thomas-Fermi approach

U. J. Furtado, S. S. Avancini, J. R. Marinelli +2

The behavior and properties of neutrinos in non-uniform nuclear matter, surrounded by electrons and other neutrinos are studied. The nuclear matter itself is modeled by the non-lin…

nucl-th2010

Radiatively Induced Non Linearity in the Walecka Model

Rafael Cavagnoli, Marcus Benghi Pinto

We evaluate the effective potential for the conventional linear Walecka non perturbatively up to one loop. This quantity is then renormalized with a prescription which allows finit…

nucl-th2009★ 8 cited

Color symmetric superconductivity in a phenomenological QCD model

Henrik Bohr, Constança Providência, João da Providência

In this paper, we construct a theory of the NJL-type where superconductivity is present, and yet the super-conducting state remains, in the average, color symmetric. This shows tha…

nucl-th2009★ 76 cited

The Y(4260) as a system

A. Martínez Torres, K. P. Khemchandani, D. Gamermann +1

A study of the and systems, treating them as coupled channels, has been made by solving the Faddeev equations, with the purpose of investigating the possibil…