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Analysis of Collective Flow in High Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions in the Relativistic VUU Approach
We have calculated the collective flow for collisions of by using the relativistic Vlasov-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (VUU) equation based on the QHD-I model of Walecka. The tensitivity of flow characterized by and to mean field and in-medium NN scattering cross section is studied. It is found that the azimuthal correlation function is reduced dramatically after inserting the collision term and then varies very slowly between NN cross sections from to and reaches the minimum at , while the in-plane mean transverse momentum increases slowly all the way from to . The collective flow is very sensitive to the momentum dependence (indicated by the effective mass ) of the mean field and less sensitive to the compression modulus K and the cross sections from to . The numerical results were compared with the experimental data, and we found that the agreement for both and can be reached with the same set of mean field parameters as well as the appropriate NN cross section in collision terms.
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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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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.
124137012
Study of in-medium Delta Delta elastic scattering cross section
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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.
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Microscopic description of spherical to γ-soft shape transitions in Ba and Xe nuclei
The rapid transition between spherical and γ-soft shapes in Ba and Xe nuclei in the mass region A>130 is analyzed using excitation spectra and collective wave functions obtained by diagonalization of a five-dimensional Hamiltonian for quadrupole vibrational and rotational degrees of freedom, with parameters determined by constrained self-consistent relativistic mean-field calculations for triaxial shapes. The results reproduce the characteristic evolution of excitation spectra and E2 transition probabilities, and in general, a good agreement with available data is obtained. The calculated spectra display fingerprints of a second-order shape phase transition that can approximately be described by analytic solutions corresponding to the E(5) dynamical symmetry.
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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.
119185410
Single-particle resonances in a deformed Dirac equation
Single-particle bound and resonant states are obtained by solving the Dirac equation with quadrupole-deformed Woods-Saxon potential in coordinate space with the coupled-channel approach. Taking the m{sup {pi}}=1/2{sup +} resonant states at deformation {beta}=0.1 as examples, the roles of their spherical components have been investigated based on the behaviors of the eigenphases and the corresponding probabilities weighted by the scalar spherical potential. It is shown that the realization of the m{sup {pi}}=1/2{sup +} resonances is supported mainly by the lnot =0 components, and the mixture of the s{sub 1/2} component can lead to the disappearance of some resonances at finite energy. The dominance of the lnot =0 component (d{sub 3/2}) in the small-energy region guarantees the continuation of a certain resonance to the corresponding bound state.
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Relativistic energy density functionals: Low-energy collective states ofPu240andEr166
The empirical relativistic density-dependent, point-coupling energy density functional, adjusted exclusively to experimental binding energies of a large set of deformed nuclei with A ≈ 150-180 and A ≈ 230-250, is tested with spectroscopic data for 166 Er and 240 Pu. Starting from constrained self-consistent triaxial relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov calculations of binding energy maps as functions of the quadrupole deformation in the β-γ plane, excitation spectra and E2 transition probabilities are calculated as solutions of the corresponding microscopic collective Hamiltonian in five dimensions for quadrupole vibrational and rotational degrees of freedom and compared with available data on low-energy collective states.
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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.