TY - JOUR
T1 - The equation of state of asymmetric nuclear matter at zero and finite temperatures with the variational method
AU - Togashi, Hajime
AU - Kanzawa, Hiroaki
AU - Takano, Masatoshi
PY - 2010/12/1
Y1 - 2010/12/1
N2 - The equation of state (EOS) of asymmetric nuclear matter at zero and finite temperatures is constructed with the variational method, starting from the realistic nuclear Hamiltonian composed of the AV18 and UIX nuclear potentials. At zero temperature, the energy per nucleon of asymmetric nuclear matter is calculated in the two-body-cluster approximation with the three-body-force contribution treated somewhat phenomenologically so as to reproduce the empirical saturation conditions. At finite temperatures, the free energies per nucleon of asymmetric nuclear matter are obtained with an extension of the variational method by Schmidt and Pandharipande. Validity of the frozen-correlation approximation employed in this study is confirmed. The obtained free energies and related thermodynamic quantities for various densities, temperatures and proton fractions are essential ingredients in our project for constructing a new nuclear EOS table for supernova simulations.
AB - The equation of state (EOS) of asymmetric nuclear matter at zero and finite temperatures is constructed with the variational method, starting from the realistic nuclear Hamiltonian composed of the AV18 and UIX nuclear potentials. At zero temperature, the energy per nucleon of asymmetric nuclear matter is calculated in the two-body-cluster approximation with the three-body-force contribution treated somewhat phenomenologically so as to reproduce the empirical saturation conditions. At finite temperatures, the free energies per nucleon of asymmetric nuclear matter are obtained with an extension of the variational method by Schmidt and Pandharipande. Validity of the frozen-correlation approximation employed in this study is confirmed. The obtained free energies and related thermodynamic quantities for various densities, temperatures and proton fractions are essential ingredients in our project for constructing a new nuclear EOS table for supernova simulations.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:84887421292
SN - 1824-8039
JO - Proceedings of Science
JF - Proceedings of Science
T2 - 11th Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos, NIC 2010
Y2 - 19 July 2010 through 23 July 2010
ER -