Constraining the symmetry energy with heavy-ion collisions and Bayesian analyses

Autor: P. Morfouace, C.Y. Tsang, Y. Zhang, W.G. Lynch, M.B. Tsang, D.D.S. Coupland, M. Youngs, Z. Chajecki, M.A. Famiano, T.K. Ghosh, G. Jhang, Jenny Lee, H. Liu, A. Sanetullaev, R. Showalter, J. Winkelbauer
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Physics Letters B, Vol 799, Iss , Pp - (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0370-2693
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.135045
Popis: Efficiency corrected single ratios of neutron and proton spectra in central Sn112+112Sn and Sn124+124Sn collisions at 120 MeV/u are combined with double ratios to provide constraints on the density and momentum dependencies of the isovector mean-field potential. Bayesian analyses of these data reveal that the isoscalar and isovector nucleon effective masses, ms⁎−mv⁎ are strongly correlated. The linear correlation observed in ms⁎−mv⁎ yields a nearly independent constraint on the effective mass splitting Δmnp⁎=(mn⁎−mp⁎)/mN=−0.05−0.09+0.09δ. The correlated constraint on the standard symmetry energy, S0 and the slope, L at saturation density yields the values of symmetry energy S(ρs)=16.8−1.2+1.2 MeV at a sensitive density of ρs/ρ0=0.43−0.05+0.05. Keywords: Symmetry energy, Heavy-ion collisions, Bayesian analysis
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