Circumstantial evidence for a soft nuclear symmetry energy at suprasaturation densities.
Circumstantial evidence for a soft nuclear symmetry energy at suprasaturation densities.
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.102.062502
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发表时间:
2008-08
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
Z. Xiao;Bao-An Li;Lie-Wen Chen;G. Yong;Ming Zhang
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作者:
Z. Xiao;Bao-An Li;Lie-Wen Chen;G. Yong;Ming Zhang
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)10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2006.10.085] provide circumstantial evidence suggesting a rather soft nuclear symmetry energy E_{sym}(rho) at rho> or =2rho_{0} compared to the Akmal-Pandharipande-Ravenhall prediction. Some astrophysical implications and the need for further experimental confirmations are discussed.