Hollow nuclear matter

Abstract

It is generally considered that an atomic nucleus is always compact. Based on the isospin-dependent Boltzmann nuclear transport model, here I show that large block nuclear matter or excited nuclear matter may both be hollow. And the size of inner bubble in these matter is affected by the charge number of nuclear matter. Existence of hollow nuclear matter may have many implications in nuclear or atomic physics or astrophysics as well as some practical applications.

5 pages, 6 figures, PRC, in production

References in corpus (5)

• Neutron-Rich Nuclei in Heaven and Earth
• Nuclear symmetry energy and its density slope at normal density extracted from global nucleon optical potentials
• Symmetry Energy of Nucleonic Matter With Tensor Correlations
• Effects of short-range correlation reduced kinetic symmetry energy in heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies
• The isospin quartic term in the kinetic energy of neutron-rich nucleonic matter

Cited by in corpus (4)

• Probing nuclear bubble configuration by proton induced reaction
• Impact of quadrupole deformation on intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions
• Initialization effects of nucleon profile on the $\pi$ yields in heavy-ion collisions at medium energies
• Probing nuclear bubble configuration by the ${\pi }^{-}/{\pi }^{+}$ ratio in heavy-ion collisions