activity
20142026
most citedProgress in Constraining Nuclear Symmetry Energy Using Neutron Star Observables Since GW170817

210 citations · 854 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

23 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Bayesian Inference of fine-features of dense matter EOS from future high-precision data of neutron star radii

Bao-An Li, Xavier Grundler, Wen-Jie Xie +1

Future high-precision X-ray and gravitational wave observatories are expected to measure the radii of neutron stars (NSs) with an accuracy better than about 0.1 km. However, it rem…

nucl-th2026

Trace anomaly and isospin splitting in inverse-mapped relativistic mean-field theory

Wen-Jie Xie, Jun-Hua Guo

Trace anomaly and sound speed provide EOS-level probes of dense-matter nonconformality, but do not by themselves identify the microscopic channels responsible for the response. We…

nucl-th2026

Finite-nucleus-protected high-density extension of covariant density functionals constrained by multimessenger data

Wen-Jie Xie, Jun-Hua Guo

We construct a finite-nucleus-protected high-density extension of covariant density functionals by modifying only the isoscalar-vector channel outside the finite-nucleus calibratio…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Bayesian Inference of Hybrid Star Properties from Future High-Precision Measurements of Their Radii

Bao-An Li, Xavier Grundler, Wen-Jie Xie +1

Future high-precision X-ray and gravitational-wave observations of neutron stars (NSs) are expected to constrain NS radii with uncertainties as small as ~km. Such unpr…

nucl-th2025★ 5 cited

Evolutions of in-medium baryon-baryon scattering cross sections and stiffness of dense nuclear matter from Bayesian analyses of FOPI proton flow excitation functions

Bao-An Li, Wen-Jie Xie

Within a Bayesian statistical framework using a Gaussian Process (GP) emulator for an isospin-dependent Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (IBUU) transport model simulator of heavy-ion re…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 20 cited

Bayesian Inference of Fine-Features of Nuclear Equation of State from Future Neutron Star Radius Measurements to 0.1km Accuracy

Bao-An Li, Xavier Grundler, Wen-Jie Xie +1

To more precisely constrain the Equation of State (EOS) of supradense neutron-rich nuclear matter, future high-precision X-ray and gravitational wave observatories are proposed to…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 18 cited

Impact of The Newly Revised Gravitational Redshift of X-ray Burster GS 1826-24 on The Equation of State of Supradense Neutron-Rich Matter

Wen-Jie Xie, Bao-An Li, Nai-Bo Zhang

Thanks to the recent advancement in producing rare isotopes and measuring their masses with unprecedented precision, the updated nuclear masses around the waiting-point nucleus $^{…

nucl-th2023★ 14 cited

Bayesian inference of in-medium baryon-baryon scattering cross sections from HADES proton flow data

Bao-An Li, Wen-Jie Xie

Within a Bayesian statistical framework using a Gaussian Process emulator for an isospin-dependent Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (IBUU) transport model simulator of heavy-ion reactio…

nucl-th2022

A theoretical overview of isospin and EOS effects in heavy-ion reactions at intermediate energies

Bao-An Li, Bao-Jun Cai, Lie-Wen Chen +3

The isospin dependence of in-medium nuclear effective interactions is a fundamental issue in nuclear physics and has broad ramifications in astrophysics. Its uncertainties, especia…

nucl-th2021★ 210 cited

Progress in Constraining Nuclear Symmetry Energy Using Neutron Star Observables Since GW170817

Bao-An Li, Bao-Jun Cai, Wen-Jie Xie +1

New observational data of neutron stars since GW170817 have helped improve our knowledge about nuclear symmetry energy especially at high densities. We have learned particularly: (…

nucl-th2021★ 7 cited

Differential analysis of incompressibility in neutron-rich nuclei

Bao-An Li, Wen-Jie Xie

Both the incompressibility \Ka of a finite nucleus of mass A and that () of infinite nuclear matter are fundamentally important for many critical issues in nuclear phys…

nucl-th2020★ 64 cited

Bayesian inference of dense matter EOS encapsulating a first-order hadron-quark phase transition from observables of canonical neutron stars

Wen-Jie Xie, Bao-An Li

[Purpose:] We infer the posterior probability distribution functions (PDFs) and correlations of nine parameters characterizing the EOS of dense neutron-rich matter encapsulating a…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 89 cited

Bayesian Inference of the Symmetry Energy of Super-Dense Neutron-Rich Matter from Future Radius Measurements of Massive Neutron Stars

Wen-Jie Xie, Bao-An Li

Using an explicitly isospin-dependent parametric Equation of State (EOS) for the core of neutron stars (NSs) within the Bayesian statistical approach, we infer the EOS parameters o…

nucl-th2020★ 48 cited

Bayesian inference of nuclear symmetry energy from measured and imagined neutron skin thickness in Sn, Pb, and Ca

Jun Xu, Wen-Jie Xie, Bao-An Li

The neutron skin thickness in heavy nuclei has been known as one of the most sensitive terrestrial probes of the nuclear symmetry energy around of the satur…

nucl-th2020★ 24 cited

Constraining isovector nuclear interactions with giant resonances within a Bayesian approach

Jun Xu, Jia Zhou, Zhen Zhang +2

We put a stringent constraint on the isovector nuclear interactions in the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock model from the centroid energy of the isovector giant dipole resonance in $^…

nucl-th2020★ 29 cited

Bayesian inference of the incompressibility, skewness and kurtosis of nuclear matter from empirical pressures in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Wen-Jie Xie, Bao-An Li

Within the Bayesian statistical framework we infer the incompressibility , skewness and kurtosis parameters of symmetric nuclear matter (SNM) at its saturation den…

nucl-th2019★ 6 cited

Symmetry energy of super-dense neutron-rich matter from integrating barotropic pressures in neutron stars and heavy-ion reactions

Bao-An Li, Wen-Jie Xie

Within the minimum model of neutron stars (NS) consisting of neutrons, protons and electrons, a new approach is proposed for inferring the symmetry energy of super-dense neutron-ri…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 112 cited

Bayesian Inference of High-density Nuclear Symmetry Energy from Radii of Canonical Neutron Stars

Wen-Jie Xie, Bao-An Li

The radius of neutron stars (NSs) with a mass of 1.4 M has been extracted consistently in many recent studies in the literature. Using representative …

nucl-th2018★ 22 cited

Dynamical properties and secondary decay effects of projectile fragmentation in 107,124Sn + 120Sn collisions at 600 MeV/nucleon

Jun Su, Wolfgang Trautmann, Long Zhu +2

The formation of the projectile spectator and the fragmentation processes in 107,124Sn + 120Sn collisions at 600 MeV/nucleon are studied with the isospin-dependent quantum molecula…

nucl-th2016★ 151 cited

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…

nucl-th2015★ 30 cited

In-medium and isospin effects on particle production near threshold energies in heavy-ion collisions

Zhao-Qing Feng, Wen-Jie Xie, Peng-Hui Chen +2

Dynamics of pseudoscalar mesons (, , and ) and hyperons ( and ) produced in heavy-ion collisions near threshold energies has been investigated within…

nucl-th2014

Nuclear in-medium effects of strange particles in proton-nucleus collisions

Zhao-Qing Feng

Dynamics of strange particles produced in proton induced nuclear reactions near threshold energies has been investigated within the Lanzhou quantum molecular dynamics (LQMD) transp…

nucl-th2014★ 1 cited

Production Cross Section of Neutron-Rich Calcium Isotopes in Heavy Ion Collisions

Donghong Zhang, Wenjie Xie, Jun Su +1

Based on the isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics model along with the GEMINI model, heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies are studied. We calculate the production…