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Comparing pion production in transport simulations of heavy-ion collisions at MeV under controlled conditions
Jun Xu, Hermann Wolter, Maria Colonna +20
Within the TMEP, we present a detailed study of the performance of different transport models in Sn+Sn collisions at MeV, and put particular emphasis on the production of pi…
Dense Nuclear Matter Equation of State from Heavy-Ion Collisions
Agnieszka Sorensen, Kshitij Agarwal, Kyle W. Brown +133
The nuclear equation of state (EOS) is at the center of numerous theoretical and experimental efforts in nuclear physics. With advances in microscopic theories for nuclear interact…
Transport Model Comparison Studies of Intermediate-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions
Hermann Wolter, Maria Colonna, Dan Cozma +49
Transport models are the main method to obtain physics information from low to relativistic-energy heavy-ion collisions. The Transport Model Evaluation Project (TMEP) has been purs…
Comparison of Heavy-Ion Transport Simulations: Mean-field Dynamics in a Box
Maria Colonna, Ying-Xun Zhang, Yong-Jia Wang +26
Within the transport model evaluation project (TMEP) of simulations for heavy-ion collisions, the mean-field response is examined here. Specifically, zero-sound propagation is cons…
Impact of the neutron-star deformability on equation of state parameters
C. Y. Tsang, M. B. Tsang, Pawel Danielewicz +2
We use a Bayesian inference analysis to explore the sensitivity of Taylor expansion parameters of the nuclear equation of state (EOS) to the neutron star dimensionless tidal deform…
Constraints on Skyrme Equations of State from Doubly Magic Nuclei, Ab-Initio Calculations of Low-Density Neutron Matter, and Neutron Stars
C. Y. Tsang, B. A. Brown, F. J. Fattoyev +2
We use properties of doubly-magic nuclei, ab-initio calculations of low-density neutron matter, and of neutron stars to constrain the parameters of the Skyrme energy-density functi…
Insights on Skyrme parameters from GW170817
C. Y. Tsang, M. B. Tsang, Pawel Danielewicz +2
The binary neutron-star merger event, GW170817, has cast a new light on nuclear physics research. Using a neutron-star model that includes a crust equation of state (EoS), we calcu…
Comparison of heavy-ion transport simulations: Collision integral with pions and resonances in a box
Akira Ono, Jun Xu, Maria Colonna +21
We compare ten transport codes for a system confined in a box, aiming at improved handling of the production of resonances and pions, which is indispensable for constraining hi…
Dynamical and many-body correlation effects in the kinetic energy spectra of isotopes produced in nuclear multifragmentation
S. R. Souza, R. Donangelo, M. B. Tsang +1
The properties of the kinetic energy spectra of light isotopes produced in the breakup of a nuclear source and during the deexcitation of its products are examined. The initial sta…
Many-particle correlations and Coulomb effects on temperatures from fragment momentum fluctuations
S. R. Souza, M. B. Tsang, R. Donangelo
We investigate correlations in the fragment momentum distribution due to the propagation of fragments under the influence of their mutual Coulomb field, after the breakup of an exc…
Pion Production in Rare Isotope Collisions
M. B. Tsang, J. Estee, H. Setiawan +15
Pion energy spectra are presented for central collisions of neutron-rich 132Sn+124Sn and neutron-deficient 108Sn+112Sn systems using simulations with Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck tr…
Understanding transport simulations of heavy-ion collisions at 100 and 400 AMeV: Comparison of heavy ion transport codes under controlled conditions
Jun Xu, Lie-Wen Chen, ManYee Betty Tsang +28
Transport simulations are very valuable for extracting physics information from heavy-ion collision experiments. With the emergence of many different transport codes in recent year…
Covariance Analysis of Symmetry Energy Observables from Heavy Ion Collision
Yingxun Zhang, M. B. Tsang, Zhuxia Li
Using covariance analysis, we quantify the correlations between the interaction parameters in a transport model and the observables commonly used to extract information of the Equa…
Constraints on symmetry energy and nucleon effective mass splitting with Heavy Ion Collisions
Yingxun Zhang, M. B. Tsang, Zhuxia Li +1
A new version of the improved quantum molecular dynamics model has been developed to include standard Skyrme interactions. Four commonly used Skyrme parameter sets, SLy4, SkI2, SkM…
A way forward in the study of the symmetry energy: experiment, theory, and observation
C. J. Horowitz, E. F. Brown, Y. Kim +6
The symmetry energy describes how the energy of nuclear matter rises as one goes away from equal numbers of neutrons and protons. This is very important to describe neutron rich ma…
Statistical multifragmentation model with discretized energy and the generalized Fermi breakup. I. Formulation of the model
S. R. Souza, B. V. Carlson, R. Donangelo +2
The Generalized Fermi Breakup recently demonstrated to be formally equivalent to the Statistical Multifragmentation Model, if the contribution of excited states are included in the…
Probing the symmetry energy with isospin ratio from nucleons to fragments
Yingxun Zhang, Zhuxia Li, Chengshuang Zhou +4
Within the framework of ImQMD05, we study several isospin sensitive observables, such as DR(n/p) ratios, isospin transport ratio (isospin diffusion), yield ratios for LCPs between…
Effect of isospin dependent cluster recognition on the observables in heavy ion collisions
Yingxun Zhang, Zhuxia Li, Chengshuang Zhou +1
We introduce isospin dependence in the cluster recognition algorithms used in the Quantum Molecular Dynamics model to describe fragment formation in heavy ion collisions. This chan…
Finite size effects in isobaric ratios
S. R. Souza, M. B. Tsang
The properties of isobaric ratios, between nuclei produced in the same reaction, are investigated using the canonical and grand-canonical statistical ensembles. Although the grand-…
Influence of Transport Variables on Isospin Transport Ratios
D. D. S. Coupland, W. G. Lynch, M. B. Tsang +2
The symmetry energy in the nuclear equation of state affects many aspects of nuclear astrophysics, nuclear structure, and nuclear reactions. Recent constraints from heavy ion colli…
Fermi breakup and the Statistical Multifragmentation Model
B. V. Carlson, R. Donangelo, S. R. Souza +3
We demonstrate the close similarity of a generalized Fermi breakup model, in which densities of excited states are taken into account, to the microcanonical statistical multifragme…
Probing the density dependence of symmetry energy at subsaturation density with HICs
Yingxun Zhang, M. B. Tsang, Zhuxia Li +3
The reaction mechanism of the central collisions and peripheral collisions for at is investigated within the framework of the Improved Quant…
Isospin effects and the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy
S. R. Souza, M. B. Tsang, B. V. Carlson +3
The density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy is inspected using the Statistical Multifragmentation Model with Skyrme effective interactions. The model consistently conside…
Temperature effects in the nuclear isoscaling
S. R. Souza, M. B. Tsang, B. V. Carlson +3
The properties of the nuclear isoscaling at finite temperature are investigated and the extent to which its parameter holds information on the symmetry energy is examined. We s…