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Nuclear matter
About: Nuclear matter is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 10180 publications have been published within this topic receiving 248261 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a new improved relativistic mean-field effective interaction with explicit density dependence of the meson-nucleon couplings was proposed. But it was only applied to the analysis of very recent data on superheavy nuclei.
Abstract: We adjust a new improved relativistic mean-field effective interaction with explicit density dependence of the meson-nucleon couplings. The effective interaction DD-ME2 is tested in relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov and quasiparticle random-phase approximation (QRPA) calculations of nuclear ground states and properties of excited states, in calculation of masses, and it is applied to the analysis of very recent data on superheavy nuclei.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors combine the many-body theory and the low-density expansion developed by Brueckner, Bethe and others to investigate several properties of the ground state and of single-particle excited states of symmetric nuclear matter.
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TL;DR: The relativistic Hartree equations for spherical nuclei were derived from a relativistically nuclear quantum field theory using a coordinate-space Green function approach in this paper, which represented the mean-field approximation for a finite nuclear system.
520 citations
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Czech Technical University in Prague1, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic2, Panjab University, Chandigarh3, CERN4, Polytechnic University of Turin5, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay6, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre7, University of Bergen8, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information9, Yale University10, Bergen University College11, University of Santiago de Compostela12, National Autonomous University of Mexico13, California Polytechnic State University14, Sejong University15, Sewanee: The University of the South16, State University of Campinas17, Kurchatov Institute18, University of Birmingham19, CINVESTAV20
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the first observation of strangeness enhancement in high-multiplicity proton-proton collisions, showing that the integrated yields of strange and multi-strange particles relative to pions increases significantly with the event charged-particle multiplicity.
Abstract: At sufficiently high temperature and energy density, nuclear matter undergoes a transition to a phase in which quarks and gluons are not confined: the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Such an exotic state of strongly interacting quantum chromodynamics matter is produced in the laboratory in heavy nuclei high-energy collisions, where an enhanced production of strange hadrons is observed. Strangeness enhancement, originally proposed as a signature of QGP formation in nuclear collisions, is more pronounced for multi-strange baryons. Several effects typical of heavy-ion phenomenology have been observed in high-multiplicity proton-proton (pp) collisions, but the enhanced production of multi-strange particles has not been reported so far. Here we present the first observation of strangeness enhancement in high-multiplicity proton-proton collisions. We find that the integrated yields of strange and multi-strange particles, relative to pions, increases significantly with the event charged-particle multiplicity. The measurements are in remarkable agreement with the p-Pb collision results, indicating that the phenomenon is related to the final system created in the collision. In high-multiplicity events strangeness production reaches values similar to those observed in Pb-Pb collisions, where a QGP is formed.
500 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the density dependence for σ-, ω- and ρ-meson coupling is obtained by fitting to properties of nuclear matter and some finite nuclei.
488 citations