Imprints of Nuclear Symmetry Energy on Properties of Neutron Stars Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Significant progress has been made in recent years in constraining the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy using terrestrial nuclear laboratory data. Around and below the nuclear matter saturation density, the experimental constraints start to merge in a relatively narrow region. At supra-saturation densities, there are, however, still large uncertainties. After summarizing the latest experimental constraints on the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy, we highlight a few recent studies examining imprints of nuclear symmetry energy on the binding energy, energy release during hadron-quark phase transitions as well as the -mode frequency and damping time of gravitational wave emission of neutron stars.

published proceedings

  • INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR PHYSICS CONFERENCE 2010 (INPC2010): NUCLEAR ASTROPHYSICS

author list (cited authors)

  • Li, B., Chen, L., Gearheart, M., Hooker, J., Ko, C. M., Krastev, P. G., ... Xu, J.

citation count

  • 11

complete list of authors

  • Li, Bao-An||Chen, Lie-Wen||Gearheart, Michael||Hooker, Joshua||Ko, Che Ming||Krastev, Plamen G||Lin, Wei-Kang||Newton, William G||Wen, De-Hua||Xu, Chang||Xu, Jun

publication date

  • September 2011