Circumstantial Evidence for a Soft Nuclear Symmetry Energy at Suprasaturation Densities

Within an isospin- and momentum-dependent hadronic transport model, it is shown that the recent FOPI data on the pi(-)/pi(+) ratio in central heavy-ion collisions at SIS/GSI energies [Willy Reisdorf , Nucl. Phys. A 781, 459 (2007)] provide circumstantial evidence suggesting a rather soft nuclear symmetry energy E-sym(rho) at rho >= 2 rho(0) compared to the Akmal-Pandharipande-Ravenhall prediction. Some astrophysical implications and the need for further experimental confirmations are discussed.

Dynamical analysis on heavy-ion fusion reactions near Coulomb barrier

The shell correction is proposed in the improved isospin dependent quantum molecular dynamics (Im-IQMD) model, which plays an important role in heavy-ion fusion reactions near Coulomb barrier. By using the ImIQMD model, the static and dynamical fusion barriers, dynamical barrier distribution in the fusion reactions are analyzed systematically. The fusion and capture excitation functions for a series of reaction systems are calculated and compared with experimental data. It is found that the fusion cross sections for neutron-rich systems increase obviously, and the strong shell effects of two colliding nuclei result in a decrease of the fusion cross sections at the sub-barrier energies. The lowering of the dynamical fusion barriers favors the enhancement of the sub-barrier fusion cross sections, which is related to the nucleon transfer and the neck formation in the fusion reactions.

Dynamics of pion production in heavy-ion collisions around 1A GeV energies

Within the framework of the improved isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics model, the dynamics of pion emission in heavy-ion collisions in the region of 1A GeV energies as a probe of nuclear symmetry energy at suprasaturation densities is investigated systematically. The total pion multiplicities and the pi(-)/pi(+) yields are calculated for selected Skyrme parameters SkP, SLy6, Ska, and SIII and also for the cases of different stiffness of symmetry energy with the parameter SLy6. The influence of Coulomb potential, symmetry energy, and in-medium pion potential on the pion production is investigated and compared to each other by analyzing the distributions of transverse momentum and longitudinal rapidity and also the excitation functions of the total pion and the pi(-)/pi(+) ratio. The directed flow, elliptic flow, and polar-angle distributions are calculated for the cases of different collision centralities and also the various stiffnesses of the symmetry energies. A comparison of the calculations with the available experimental data is performed.

Isospin effects of the Skyrme potential and the momentum dependent interaction at intermediate energy heavy ion collisions

We improve the isospin dependent quantum molecular dynamical model by including isospin effects in the Skyrme potential and the momentum dependent interaction to obtain an isospin dependent Skyrme potential and an isospin dependent momentum interaction. We investigate the isospin effects of Skyrme potential and momentum dependent interaction on the isospin fractionation ratio and the dynamical mechanism in intermediate energy heavy ion collisions. It is found that the isospin dependent Skyrme potential and the isospin dependent momentum interaction produce some important isospin effects in the isospin fractionation ratio

Spin and spin-isospin instabilities and Landau parameters of Skyrme interactions with tensor correlations

The Landau parameters of Skyrme interactions in the spin and spin-isospin channels are studied using various Skyrme effective interactions with and without tensor correlations. We focus on the role of the tensor terms on the spin and spin-isospin instabilities that can occur in nuclear matter above saturation density. We point out that these instabilities are realized in nuclear matter at the critical density of about two times the saturation density for all the adopted parameter sets. The critical density is shown to be very much dependent not only on the choice of the Skyrme parameter set, but also on the inclusion of the tensor terms.

Dynamics of quantum dissipation systems interacting with fermion and boson grand canonical bath ensembles: Hierarchical equations of motion approach

A hierarchical equations of motion formalism for a quantum dissipation system in a grand canonical bath ensemble surrounding is constructed on the basis of the calculus-on-path-integral algorithm, together with the parametrization of arbitrary non-Markovian bath that satisfies fluctuation-dissipation theorem. The influence functionals for both the fermion or boson bath interaction are found to be of the same path integral expression as the canonical bath, assuming they all satisfy the Gaussian statistics. However, the equation of motion formalism is different due to the fluctuation-dissipation theories that are distinct and used explicitly. The implications of the present work to quantum transport through molecular wires and electron transfer in complex molecular systems are discussed. (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics.

Pion Production in Heavy-ion Collisions in the 1 A GeV region

Within the framework of the improved isospin dependent quantum molecular dynamics (ImIQMD) model, the pion emission in heavy-ion collisions in the region 1AGeV is investigated systematically, in which the pion is considered to be mainly produced by the decay of resonances ∆(1232) and N∗(1440). The in-medium dependence and Coulomb effects of the pion production are included in the calculation. Total pion multiplicity and π−/π+ yields are calculated for the reaction 197Au+197Au in central collisions for selected Skyrme parameters SkP, SLy6,Ska, SIII and compared them with the measured data by the FOPI collaboration.

改进的QMD模型研究不同入射道条件对同位旋分馏强度的影响

通过在同位旋相关量子分子动力学模型(IQMD)中引入同位旋依赖的动量相关作用和同位旋相关的Skyrme势,得到了改进的同位旋依赖的量子分子动力学模型,并用此模型分析和讨论了中能重离子碰撞中的同位旋分馏强度随入射道条件的演化.结果表明在中能重离子碰撞中各种入射道条件下同位旋依赖的动量相关作用和Skyrme势有着明显的同位旋效应,它们减弱了同位旋分馏的过程.

自旋极化的同位旋非对称核物质性质

利用Skyrme有效相互作用 ,采用核子 -核子相互作用参数SKM 和SⅢ对自旋极化的同位旋非对称核物质的特性和状态方程进行了研究 ,讨论了非对称核物质的磁化率随密度的变化关系及其同位旋依赖性 .结果表明 :在Skyrme Hartree Fock框架内 ,同位旋非对称核物质会发生从非极化态到极化态的相变 ,而且发生相变的临界密度随同位旋非对称度增大而降低 .另外 ,还与微观BHF (Brueckner Hartree Fock)的理论预言进行了比较和讨论

丰中子核中的中子势能特性

利用Skyrme Hartree Fock势和Woods Saxon势 ,选取稳定核4 8Ca和丰中子核60 Ca ,对中子平均场势能进行了研究 ,并给出了其特性 .发现丰中子核60 Ca的SHF势与Woods Saxon势在核表面区域相当符合 ,但在核表面以外有相当大的差距 .SHF势在表面以外部分比表面区域呈现出更大的弥散度 ,而原有的Woods Saxon势不能描述这一特征 .为此 ,对Woods Saxon势形式进行了修正 ,经过验证 ,修正的Woods Saxon势能正确地描述丰中子核的中子晕特性 .

杨 -密耳斯理论的单极机制(英文)

对于未加规范条件的杨 -密耳斯理论 ,提出了SU(2 )规范场一种新的离壳分解 .在一定的规范条件下 ,该分解可以导出类似于Skyrme Faddeev形式的Wilson作用量并在经典层次上肯定了色单位矢量场的高阶导数的存在 .进一步独立地证明了’tHooft关于低能杨 -密耳斯理论的单极动力学是投射无关的猜想

自旋极化的对称核物质和中子物质的性质

利用Skyrme有效相互作用对自旋极化的同位旋对称核物质和中子物质的特性进行了研究 .用 4种核子 -核子相互作用参数SⅢ ,SKM ,SLy2 30a和SLy2 30b ,分别描绘了核物质状态方程曲线 .可以发现不论使用哪一种参数 ,在自旋极化的同位旋对称核物质和中子物质中都存在着磁化相变转换点 .另外还对磁化系数进行了计算 ,给出了磁化系数比率随密度的变化关系 ,由于无限不连续点的存在 ,进一步肯定了在Skyrme Hartree Fock理论框架内两种物质会出现磁化相变转换点

非对称核物质的化学不稳定性与力学不稳定性

基于扩展的Skyrme有效相互作用 ,在Hartree Fock近似下对非对称核物质的化学不稳定性与力学不稳定性进行了研究 ,并与简单的三参数势 ,即所谓的软势与硬势的计算结果进行了比较 .结果发现两种模型给出的非对称核物质化学不稳定性与力学不稳定性之间的关系是完全不同的 .通过研究化学不稳定性在临界温度附近的行为发现 ,对软势与硬势 ,化学不稳定性可能出现在温度高于临界温度的气化 (全爆炸 )机制中 .而对于SKM势参数 ,化学不稳定性不会出现在温度高于临界温度的气化 (全爆炸 )机制中 .这种差别也反映在压强 密度平面上力学不稳定区与化学不稳定区的位置关系上 .进一步的计算表明 ,这种差别是由于两种模型给出的单粒子势的密度依赖形式的不同而导致的 ,这必将体现在重离子碰撞的现象中 ,从而可以作为提取核物质状态方程密度依赖形式的探针