Nuclear expansion and symmetry energy of hot nuclei Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The decrease in the symmetry energy of hot nuclei populated in 58Ni + 58Ni, 58Fe + 58Ni and 58Fe + 58Fe reactions at beam energies of 30, 40 and 47 MeV/nucleon, as a function of excitation energy is studied. It is observed that this decrease is mainly a consequence of increasing expansion or decreasing density rather than the increasing temperature. The results are in good agreement with the recently reported microscopic calculation based on the Thomas-Fermi approach. An empirical relation to study the symmetry energy of finite nuclei in various mass regions is proposed. 2009 IOP Publishing Ltd.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS

author list (cited authors)

  • Shetty, D. V., Souliotis, G. A., Galanopoulos, S., Kohley, Z., Soisson, S. N., Stein, B. C., Wuenschel, S., & Yennello, S. J.

citation count

  • 9

complete list of authors

  • Shetty, DV||Souliotis, GA||Galanopoulos, S||Kohley, Z||Soisson, SN||Stein, BC||Wuenschel, S||Yennello, SJ

publication date

  • July 2009