Bao-Jun Cai

TL;DR: In this paper, an analytical expression for the saturation density of asymmetric nuclear matter as well as its binding energy and incompressibility at saturation density are given up to fourth order in the isospin asymmetry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comprehensive review of nucleon isovector effective masses in dense neutron-rich nucleonic matter, and some of the significant progress made in recent years by the nuclear physics community.

TL;DR: In this article, the critical densities and impact of forming neutron stars were investigated in an extended nonlinear relativistic mean-field (RMF) model, and the critical density for the formation of four different charge states of a neutron star was found to depend on the separate kinetic and potential parts of nuclear symmetry energy, the first example of a microphysical property of neutron stars to do so.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the empirical values of some nuclear macroscopic quantities to construct model parameter sets by the Monte Carlo method for four different energy density functionals with mean-field approximation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy was examined considering uncertainties of higher order parameters describing the density dependent of the equation of state of isospin asymmetric nuclear matter.