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A Powerful New Energy Density Functional
Anthony W Thomas, Pierre A M Guichon, Jesper Leong +2
We describe the most recent energy density functional derived within the quark meson coupling model. Although fit to the binding energies and charge radii of just seventy magic nuc…
Glassy quantum nuclear pasta in neutron star crusts
William G. Newton, Mark Alexander Kaltenborn, Sarah Cantu +3
We investigate the nuclear pasta phases in neutron star crusts by conducting a large number of three-dimensional Hartree-Fock+BCS calculations at densities leading to the crust-cor…
The outer crust of a cold, non-accreting neutron star within the Quark-Meson Coupling (QMC) model
Sofija Antić, Jirina R. Stone, John C. Miller +3
The outer crust properties of cold non-accreting neutron stars are studied within the framework of the quark-meson coupling (QMC) model, which includes the effects of modifications…
Tensor and pairing interactions within the QMC energy density functional
Kay Marie L. Martinez, Anthony William Thomas, Pierre A. M. Guichon +1
In the latest version of the QMC model, QMC-III-T, the density functional is improved to include the tensor component quadratic in the spin-current and a pairing interaction der…
Neutron stars from crust to core within the Quark-meson coupling model
Sofija Antic, Jirina R. Stone, Anthony W. Thomas
Recent years continue to be an exciting time for the neutron star physics, providing many new observations and insights to these natural laboratories of cold dense matter. To descr…
Spinodal Instability at the Onset of Collective Expansion in Nuclear Collisions
Pawel Danielewicz, Hao Lin, Jirina R. Stone +1
Using transport theory to model central Au + Au collisions in the energy region of 20 - 110 MeV/u, at impact parameters b <= 5 fm, we predict a measurable impact of spinoidal insta…
Physics of even-even superheavy nuclei with 96 < Z < 110 in the Quark-Meson-Coupling Model
J. R. Stone, K. Morita, P. A. M. Guichon +1
The Quark-Meson-Coupling (QMC) model has been applied to the study of the properties of even-even super-heavy nuclei with 96 < Z < 110, over a wide range of neutron numbers. The ai…
Parameter Optimisation for the Latest Quark-Meson Coupling Energy Density Functional
Kay Marie L. Martinez, Anthony William Thomas, Jirina R. Stone +1
The Quark--Meson--Coupling (QMC) model self-consistently relates the dynamics of the internal quark structure of a hadron to the relativistic mean fields arising in nuclear matter.…
Superheavy Nuclei in the Quark-Meson-Coupling Model
Jirina Stone, Pierre Guichon, Anthony Thomas
We present a selection of the first results obtained in a comprehensive calculation of ground state properties of even-even superheavy nuclei in the region of 96 < Z < 136 and 118…
Finite Nuclei in the Quark-Meson Coupling (QMC) Model
J. R. Stone, P. A. M. Guichon, P. G. Reinhard +1
We report the first use of the effective QMC energy density functional (EDF), derived from a quark model of hadron structure, to study a broad range of ground state properties of e…
Core-collapse supernova matter: light clusters, pasta phase and phase transitions
Helena Pais, Constança Providência, William G. Newton +1
The pasta phase in core-collapse supernova matter (finite temperatures and fixed proton fractions) is studied within relativistic mean field models. Two different calculations are…
Phase transitions in Core-Collapse Supernova Matter at sub-saturation densities
Helena Pais, William G. Newton, Jirina R. Stone
We perform a three-dimensional, finite temperature Skyrme-Hartree-Fock study of inhomogeneous nuclear matter to determine the critical density and temperature for the phase transit…
Relativistic Mean-Field Hadronic Models under Nuclear Matter Constraints
M. Dutra, O. Lourenço, S. S. Avancini +6
Relativistic mean-field (RMF) models have been widely used in the study of many hadronic frameworks because of several important aspects not always present in nonrelativistic model…
Incompressibility in finite nuclei and nuclear matter
J. R. Stone, N. J. Stone, S. A. Moszkowski
The incompressibility (compression modulus) of infinite symmetric nuclear matter at saturation density has become one of the major constraints on mean-field models of n…
Quark-Meson Coupling Model, Nuclear Matter Constraints and Neutron Star Properties
D. L. Whittenbury, J. D. Carroll, A. W. Thomas +2
We explore the equation of state for nuclear matter in the quark-meson coupling model, including full Fock terms. The comparison with phenomenological constraints can be used to re…
Do Skyrme forces that fit nuclear matter work well in finite nuclei?
P. D. Stevenson, P. M. Goddard, J. R. Stone +1
A shortlist of Skyrme force parameterizations, recently found to have passed a series of constraints relating to nuclear matter properties is analyzed for their ability to reproduc…
Neutron Star Properties with Hyperons
D. L. Whittenbury, J. D. Carroll, A. W. Thomas +2
In the light of the recent discovery of a neutron star with a mass accurately determined to be almost two solar masses, it has been suggested that hyperons cannot play a role in th…
Skyrme Interaction and Nuclear Matter Constraints
M. Dutra, O. Lourenço, J. S. Sá Martins +3
This paper presents a detailed assessment of the ability of the 240 Skyrme interaction parameter sets in the literature to satisfy a series of criteria derived from macroscopic pro…
Nucleon-Nucleon Interactions from the Quark Model
Clark Downum, Jirina Stone, Ted Barnes +2
We report on investigations of the applicability of non-relativistic constituent quark models to the low-energy nucleon-nucleon (NN) interaction. The major innovations of a resulti…
Cold uniform matter and neutron stars in the quark-mesons-coupling model
J. Rikovska-Stone, P. A. M. Guichon, H. H. Matevosyan +1
A new density dependent effective baryon-baryon interaction has been recently derived from the quark-meson-coupling (QMC) model, offering impressive results in application to finit…
The Skyrme Interaction in finite nuclei and nuclear matter
J. R. Stone, P. -G. Reinhard
Self-consistent mean-field models are a powerful tool in the investigation of nuclear structure and low-energy dynamics. They are based on effective energy-density functionals, oft…
Magnetic moments of the 2 states around Sn
B. A. Brown, N. J. Stone, J. R. Stone +2
Development of neutron-rich radioactive beams at the HRIBF facility has stimulated experimental and theoretical activity in heavy Sn and Te isotopes. Recently, the g-factor of the…
Giant Resonances from TDHF
P. D. Stevenson, M. R. Strayer, J. Rikovska Stone +1
A method of calculating giant resonance strength functions using Time-Dependent Hartree-Fock techniques is described. An application to isoscalar giant monopole resonances in spher…
Many-body perturbation calculation of spherical nuclei with a separable monopole interaction: I. Finite nuclei
P. Stevenson, M. R. Strayer, J. Rikovska Stone
We present calculations of ground state properties of spherical, doubly closed-shell nuclei from O to Pb employing the techniques of many-body perturbation theory us…