Examination of an isospin-dependent single-nucleon momentum distribution for the isospin-asymmetric nuclear matter in heavy-ion collisions

Abstract

Within a transport model using as the input nucleon momentum profiles from a parameterized isospin-dependent single-nucleon momentum distribution with a high momentum tail induced by short-range correlations, we employ the ${}^{197}$Au + ${}^{197}$Au collisions at 400 MeV/nucleon to examine on one hand effects of the short-range correlations on the pion and flow observables in probing the nuclear symmetry energy, and on the other hand how reliable are this isospin-dependent single-nucleon momentum distribution as well as the corresponding parameter settings. Besides significant effects of the short-range correlations on the pion and flow observables are observed, we also find that the theoretical simulations of ${}^{197}$Au + ${}^{197}$Au collisions with this momentum distribution using two sets of parameters extracted from the experimental analysis and the self-consistent Green's function prediction, respectively, can reproduce the neutron elliptic flows of the FOPI-LAND experiment and the ${\pi }^{-}/{\pi }^{+}$ ratios of the FOPI experiment under the symmetry energy setting in a certain range. Therefore, we conclude that this parameterized isospin-dependent single-nucleon momentum distribution is reliable for the isospin-asymmetric nuclear matter, correspondingly, two sets of parameters extracted from both the experimental analysis and the self-consistent Green's function prediction can not be ruled out according to the available experimental information at present.

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