Determination of the stiffness of the nuclear symmetry energy from isospin diffusion

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Chen, Lie Wen ^a,c   Ko, Che Ming ^a   Li, Bao An ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOSPIN DIFFUSION; NUCLEAR SYMMETRY ENERGY; NUCLEONS; PRESUPERNOVA;

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DIFFUSION; EQUATIONS OF STATE; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NEUTRONS; STIFFNESS;

NUCLEAR ENERGY;

EID: 18144428351     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.032701     Document Type: Article

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