B K Agrawal
Articles written in Pramana – Journal of Physics
Volume 82 Issue 4 April 2014 pp 625-635
𝑆-matrix approach to the equation of state of dilute nuclear matter
J N De S K Samaddar B K Agrawal
Based on the general analysis of the grand canonical partition function in the 𝑆-matrix framework, a method is presented to calculate the equation of state of dilute warm nuclear matter. The result is a model-independent virial series for the pressure and density that systematically includes contributions from all the ground and excited states of all the stable nuclear species and their scattering channels. The multiplicity distribution of these species to keep the matter in statistical equilibrium is found out and then the pressure, incompressibility and the symmetry energy of the system are evaluated. The calculated symmetry energy coefficients are found to be in fair agreement with the recent experimental data.
Volume 82 Issue 5 May 2014 pp 823-830
Probing the density content of the nuclear symmetry energy
B K Agrawal J N De S K Samaddar
The nature of equation of state for the neutron star matter is crucially governed by the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy. We attempt to probe the behaviour of the nuclear symmetry energy around the saturation density by exploiting the empirical values for volume and surface symmetry energy coefficients extracted from the precise data on the nuclear masses.
Volume 83 Issue 5 November 2014 pp 695-704
Density content of nuclear symmetry energy from nuclear observables
The nuclear symmetry energy at a given density measures the energy transferred in converting symmetric nuclear matter into the pure neutron matter. The density content of nuclear symmetry energy remains poorly constrained. Our recent results for the density content of the nuclear symmetry energy, around the saturation density, extracted using experimental data for accurately known nuclear masses, giant resonances and neutron-skin thickness in heavy nuclei are summarized.
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