Constraints on the curvature of nuclear symmetry energy from recent astronomical data within the KIDS framework

Abstract

We investigate the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy $S(\rho )$ in the KIDS (Korea-IBS-Daegu-SKKU) framework for the nuclear equation of state (EoS) and energy-density functional (EDF). The aim is to constrain the value of the curvature parameter ($K_{\mathrm{sym}}$) based on recent astronomical data. First, assuming a standard saturation point, we calculate bulk nuclear properties within KIDS-EDF for different values of the compression modulus of symmetric nuclear matter ($K_0$) and of the leading-order symmetry energy parameters, i.e., the symmetry energy ($J$) and slope ($L$) at saturation density, each within a broadly accepted range, as well as $K_{\mathrm{sym}}$. All of the above EoS parameters are varied independently of each other. The skewness parameter ($Q_{\mathrm{sym}}$) is presently kept fixed at 650 MeV. For all EoS parameter sets which describe the selected nuclear data within better than $0.3\%$, we calculate the neutron-star equation of state and mass-radius relation and analyze the results in terms of Pearson correlation coefficients $r$. We find that the value of $K_{\mathrm{sym}}$ is strongly correlated with the radius of both a canonical and a massive star ($|r|>0.9$). If we impose that all known astronomical constraints on the neutron star radii must be satisfied, we deduce $-150<K_{\mathrm{sym}}<0$. As a result, the symmetry energy as a function of the density is consistently found to have an inflection point at ${\rho }_0<\rho <2{\rho }_0$. We take the opportunity to report that the neutron skin thickness of ${}^{208}$Pb shows no correlation at all with the neutron star radii ($|r|<0.1$), in contrast with studies which focus on the role of $L$ only.

24 pages including supplementary material, 2 tables and 3 figures

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