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20132024
most citedConstraining the symmetry energy at subsaturation densities using isotope binding energy difference and neutron skin thickness

193 citations · 1.3k across the 31 of their papers we have counts for

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31 papers

nucl-th2024★ 18 cited

Bayesian model averaging for nuclear symmetry energy from effective proton-neutron chemical potential difference of neutron-rich nuclei

Mengying Qiu, Bao-Jun Cai, Lie-Wen Chen +2

The data-driven Bayesian model averaging is a rigorous statistical approach to combining multiple models for a unified prediction. Compared with the individual model, it provides m…

nucl-th2023

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…

nucl-th2023★ 20 cited

Central Speed of Sound, Trace Anomaly and Observables of Neutron Stars from Perturbative Analyses of Scaled TOV Equations

Bao-Jun Cai, Bao-An Li, Zhen Zhang

The central speed of sound (SS) measures the stiffness of the Equation of State (EOS) of superdense neutron star (NS) matter. Its variations with density and radial coordinate in N…

nucl-th2023★ 17 cited

Core States of Neutron Stars from Anatomizing their Scaled Structure Equations

Bao-Jun Cai, Bao-An Li, Zhen Zhang

Given an Equation of State (EOS) for neutron star (NS) matter, there is a unique mass-radius sequence characterized by a maximum mass at radius . We…

nucl-th2023★ 36 cited

Kinetic approach of light-nuclei production in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions

Rui Wang, Yu-Gang Ma, Lie-Wen Chen +3

We develop a kinetic approach to the production of light nuclei up to mass number in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions by including them as dynamic degre…

nucl-th2022★ 3 cited

High-order isospin-dependent surface tension contribution to the fourth-order symmetry energy of finite nuclei

Bao-Jun Cai, Rui Wang, Zhen Zhang +1

The relation between the fourth-order symmetry energy of nuclear matter at saturation density and its counterpart of finite nuclei i…

nucl-th2022★ 61 cited

Bayesian Inference of the Symmetry Energy and the Neutron Skin in Ca and Pb from CREX and PREX-2

Zhen Zhang, Lie-Wen Chen

Using the recent model-independent determination of the charge-weak form factor difference in Ca and Pb by the CREX and PREX-2 collaborations together…

nucl-th2022

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…

nucl-th2021★ 24 cited

Evolution of polarization in the hadronic phase of heavy-ion collisions

Yifeng Sun, Zhen Zhang, Che Ming Ko +1

Using the AMPT + MUSIC+UrQMD hybrid model, we study the global and local spin polarizations of hyperons as functions of the freeze-out temperature of the spin degree of freedom…

nucl-th2021★ 11 cited

Nuclear giant quadruple resonance within transport approach and its constraint on nucleon effective mass

Yi-Dan Song, Rui Wang, Zhen Zhang +1

We study the nuclear iso-scalar giant quadruple resonance~(ISGQR) based on the Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck~(BUU) transport equation. The mean-field part of the BUU equation is desc…

nucl-th2021★ 10 cited

Charged pion production from Au + Au collisions at GeV in the Relativistic Vlasov-Uehling-Uhlenbeck model

Kyle Godbey, Zhen Zhang, Jeremy W. Holt +1

Using the isospin-dependent relativistic Vlasov-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (RVUU) model, we study charged pion () production in Au+Au collisions at 2.4 GeV. By fitti…

nucl-th2021★ 77 cited

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…

nucl-th2021★ 14 cited

Bayesian inference on the isospin splitting of nucleon effective mass from giant resonances in Pb

Zhen Zhang, Xue-Bin Feng, Lie-Wen Chen

From a Bayesian analysis of the electric dipole polarizability, the constrained energy of isovector giant dipole resonance, the peak energy of isocalar giant quadrupole resonance a…

nucl-th2021★ 60 cited

Constraints on the Symmetry Energy from PREX-II in the Multimessenger Era

Tong-Gang Yue, Lie-Wen Chen, Zhen Zhang +1

The neutron skin thickness of heavy nuclei is essentially determined by the symmetry energy density slope at ($ρ_…

nucl-th2020★ 16 cited

Nuclear collective dynamics in transport model with the lattice Hamiltonian method

Rui Wang, Zhen Zhang, Lie-Wen Chen +1

We review the recent progress on studying the nuclear collective dynamics by solving the Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (BUU) equation with the lattice Hamiltonian method treating the…

nucl-th2020★ 30 cited

Constraining the in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross section from the width of nuclear giant dipole resonance

Rui Wang, Zhen Zhang, Lie-Wen Chen +2

We develop a new lattice Hamiltonian method for solving the Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (BUU) equation. Adopting the stochastic approach to treat the collision term and using the G…

nucl-th2019★ 97 cited

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…

nucl-th2019★ 4 cited

Pairing effects on neutron matter equation of state and symmetry energy at subsaturation densities

Zhen Zhang, Lie-Wen Chen

Within the framework of BCS theory and Skyrme-Hartree-Fock model, we employ various microscopic pairing gaps and effective pairing interactions to study pairing effects on the equa…

nucl-th2019★ 19 cited

Nuclear collective dynamics in the lattice Hamiltonian Vlasov method

Rui Wang, Lie-Wen Chen, Zhen Zhang

The lattice Hamiltonian method is developed for solving the Vlasov equation with nuclear mean-field based on the Skyrme pseudopotential up to next-to-next-to-next-to leading order.…

nucl-th2019★ 57 cited

Equation of state of dense matter in the multimessenger era

Ying Zhou, Lie-Wen Chen, Zhen Zhang

While the equation of state (EOS) of symmetric nuclear matter (SNM) at suprasaturation densities has been relatively well constrained from heavy-ion collisions, the EOS of high-den…

nucl-th2017★ 25 cited

Effects of energy conservation on equilibrium properties of hot asymmetric nuclear matter

Zhen Zhang, Che Ming Ko

Based on the relativistic Vlasov-Uehling-Uhlenbeck transport model, which includes relativistic scalar and vector potentials on baryons, we consider a system in a box with…

nucl-th2017★ 145 cited

Comparison of heavy-ion transport simulations: Collision integral in a box

Ying-Xun Zhang, Yong-Jia Wang, Maria Colonna +27

Simulations by transport codes are indispensable to extract valuable physics information from heavy ion collisions. In order to understand the origins of discrepancies between diff…

nucl-th2017★ 24 cited

Nuclear matter fourth-order symmetry energy in non-relativistic mean-field models

Jie Pu, Zhen Zhang, Lie-Wen Chen

Based on systematic analyses of several popular non-relativistic energy density functionals with mean-field approximation, we estimate the value of the fourth-order symmetry energy…

nucl-th2017★ 36 cited

Nuclear dipole polarizability from mean-field modeling constrained by chiral effective field theory

Zhen Zhang, Yeunhwan Lim, Jeremy W. Holt +1

We construct a new Skyrme interaction Skm by fitting the equation of state and nucleon effective masses in asymmetric nuclear matter from chiral two- and three-body forces a…