Nuclear symmetry energy and its density slope at normal density extracted from global nucleon optical potentials

Abstract

Based on the Hugenholtz-Van Hove theorem, it is shown that both the symmetry energy E${}_{sym}(\rho )$ and its density slope $L(\rho )$ at normal density ${\rho }_0$ are completely determined by the global nucleon optical potentials that can be extracted directly from nucleon-nucleus scatterings, (p,n) charge exchange reactions and single-particle energy levels of bound states. Adopting a value of $m^{\ast }/m=0.7$ for the nucleon effective k-mass in symmetric nuclear matter at ${\rho }_0$ and averaging all phenomenological isovector nucleon potentials constrained by world data available in the literature since 1969, the best estimates of $E_{sym}({\rho }_0)=31.3$ MeV and $L({\rho }_0)=52.7$ MeV are simultaneously obtained. Uncertainties involved in the estimates are discussed.

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