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Medium effects on the NN inelastic cross section in relativistic heavy-ion collisions☆
Abstract We derive the explicit expressions for calculating the in-medium NN→N Δ cross section within the relativistic Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck approach. All the medium effects on the NN inelastic cross section in relativistic HIC are studied systematically. Numerical results are presented for densities up to three times that of nuclear matter.
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In-medium NN cross sections determined from stopping and collective flow in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions
In-medium nucleon-nucleon scattering cross sections are explored by comparing results of quantum molecular dynamics simulations to data on stopping and on elliptic and directed flow in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions. The comparison points to in-medium cross sections which are suppressed at low energies but not at higher energies. Positive correlations are found between the degree of stopping and the magnitudes of elliptic and directed flows. PACS numbers: 25.70.-z, 24.10.Lx, 21.65.+f
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Study of in-medium Delta Delta elastic scattering cross section
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Mass and isotope dependence of limiting temperatures for hot nuclei
The mass and isotope dependence of limiting temperatures for hot nuclei are investigated. The predicted mass dependence of limiting temperatures is in good agreement with data derived from the caloric curve data. The predicted isotope distribution of limiting temperatures appears to be a parabolic shape and its centroid is not located at the isotope on the beta-stability line (T=0) but at neutron-rich side. Our study shows that the mass and isotope dependence of limiting temperatures depend on the interaction and the form of surface tension and its isospin dependence sensitively.
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THE DYNAMICAL ISOSPIN EFFECT ON PROTON-INDUCED REACTIONS ON Sn ISOTOPES
In this talk we present a model, Improved Quantum Molecular Dynamics (ImQMD05) model incorporated with a Statistical Decay Model (SDM), to describe intermediate energy proton induced spallation reactions. A good agreement with experimental data of double differential cross sections of emitted neutrons is obtained. We further apply this model to study the isospin effect in proton induced spallation reactions on a series Sn isotope targets. We find that the systematic behavior of the reaction cross sections for Sn isotope targets deviates from the empirical expression obtained by fitting the experimental data for proton induced spallation reactions on target nuclei along β-stability line. The extent of the deviation depends on the density dependence of the symmetry energy strongly. We also find an obvious shift of the elastic scattering angular distribution of emitted protons when the symmetry energy is taken into account for neutron-rich Sn isotope targets and the angle shifted strongly depends on the stiffness of the symmetry energy. The attractive effect of the symmetry potential of target on incident proton directly influences the motion of the incident proton leading to strong isospin effect on the reaction dynamics and thus on these reaction observables. We conclude that the measurement of reaction cross sections and the elastic scattering angular distributions in proton induced spallation reactions on Sn isotopes can provide clear constraint for the density dependence of symmetry energy.
119408968
Isospin dependence of nucleon-nucleon elastic cross section
The in-medium neutron-proton, proton-proton (neutron-neutron) scattering cross sections (sigma(np)*, sigma(pp(nn))*) are studied based on QHD-II type Lagangian within the framework of the microscopic transport theory. The results demonstrate that, for free nucleon-nucleon scattering cross sections, the isospin dependence is dominantly caused by the rho meson field. The medium correction of nucleon-nucleon scattering cross sections is also isospin dependent, sigma(np)*, depends on the baryon density weakly and sigma(pp(nn))* depends on the baryon density significantly, which is due to the different effects of the medium correction of nucleon mass and rho meson mass on sigma(np) and sigma(pp(nn)), respectively.
119430774
A study of correlation between the oscillation amplitude and stellar parameters of delta Scuti stars in open clusters - Toward selection rules for delta Scuti star oscillations
In the present work, we study correlations between stellar fundamental parameters and the oscillation amplitude for Scuti stars. We present this study for a sample of 17 selected Scuti stars belonging to 5 young open clusters. Taking advantage of properties of Scuti stars in clusters, we correct the photometric parameters of our objects for the eects of fast rotation. We confirm the benefit of applying such corrections in this kind of studies. In addition, the technique used for this correction allows us to obtain an estimate of stellar parameters such as the angle of inclination and the rotation rate, usually not accessible. A significant correlation between the parameter i 0 (estimation of the angle of inclination of the star) and the oscillation amplitude is found. A discussion and interpretation of these a priori surprising results is proposed, in terms of a possible selection rule for oscillation modes of Scuti stars.
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Nuclear symmetry potential in the relativistic impulse approximation
Using the relativistic impulse approximation with the Love-Franey NN scattering amplitude developed by Murdock and Horowitz, we investigate the low-energy (100{<=}E{sub kin}{<=}400 MeV) behavior of the nucleon Dirac optical potential, the Schroedinger-equivalent potential, and the nuclear symmetry potential in isospin asymmetric nuclear matter. We find that the nuclear symmetry potential at fixed baryon density decreases with increasing nucleon energy. In particular, the nuclear symmetry potential at saturation density changes from positive to negative values at nucleon kinetic energy of about 200 MeV. Furthermore, the obtained energy and density dependence of the nuclear symmetry potential is consistent with those of the isospin- and momentum-dependent MDI interaction with x=0, which has been found to describe reasonably well both the isospin diffusion data from heavy-ion collisions and the empirical neutron-skin thickness of {sup 208}Pb.
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Longitudinal transitions of baryon resonances in the constituent quark model
A longitudinal transition operator that satisfies the gauge invariance requirement is introduced in the constituent quark model. The corresponding longitudinal transitions from the ground state of the nucleon to resonances of the baryon are calculated. The study shows that the longitudinal coupling plays an important role in the understanding of the structure of the baryon.
118832552
Validity of the relativistic impulse approximation for elastic proton-nucleus scattering at energies lower than 200 MeV
We present the first study to examine the validity of the relativistic impulse approximation (RIA) for describing elastic proton-nucleus scattering at incident laboratory kinetic energies lower than 200 MeV. For simplicity we choose a (208)Pb target, which is a spin-saturated spherical nucleus for which reliable nuclear structure models exist. Microscopic scalar and vector optical potentials are generated by folding invariant scalar and vector scattering nucleon-nucleon (NN) amplitudes, based on our recently developed relativistic meson-exchange model, with Lorentz scalar and vector densities resulting from the accurately calibrated PK1 relativistic mean field model of nuclear structure. It is seen that phenomenological Pauli blocking (PB) effects and density-dependent corrections to sigma N and omega N meson-nucleon coupling constants modify the RIA microscopic scalar and vector optical potentials so as to provide a consistent and quantitative description of all elastic scattering observables, namely, total reaction cross sections, differential cross sections, analyzing powers and spin rotation functions. In particular, the effect of PB becomes more significant at energies lower than 200 MeV, whereas phenomenological density-dependent corrections to the NN interaction also play an increasingly important role at energies lower than 100 MeV.
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Consistent nucleon-nucleon potentials and three-body forces
We construct microscopic three-nucleon forces consistent with the Bonn and Nijmegen two-nucleon potentials, and including \ensuremath{\Delta}, Roper, and nucleon-antinucleon excitations. Recent results for the choice of the meson parameters are discussed. The forces are used in Brueckner calculations and the saturation properties of nuclear matter are determined.