Circumstantial evidence for a soft nuclear symmetry energy at suprasaturation densities

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Xiao, Zhigang ^a   Li, Bao An ^b   Chen, Lie Wen ^c   Yong, Gao Chan ^d   Zhang, Ming ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF MODERN PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL CONFIRMATIONS; HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS; ISOSPIN; MOMENTUM DEPENDENTS; NUCLEAR SYMMETRY ENERGIES; TRANSPORT MODELS;

EID: 61349178953     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.062502     Document Type: Article

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