核物质对称能的高密行为研究

同位旋物理的主要任务之一是通过放射性核束引起的核反应来探索介质中有效核子-核子相互作用的同位旋依赖性,尤其是同位旋相关的核物质状态方程, 即密度依赖的核物质对称能。由于对称能,尤其是其高密行为,对核物理学和天体物理学具有重要意义,密度依赖的对称能在过去10年一直是中能重离子物理研究领域的主要焦点之一。近年来,低密对称能的研究已经取得了重要进展, 而对称能的高密行为仍然很不确定。在理论方面,人们提出了许多对高密对称能敏感的观测量。 实验方面, 关于对称能高密行为研究的实验计划已经展开,世界各地正在建造的放射性核束装置为对称能的高密行为研究提供了新的机遇。基于IBUU输运模型综述了研究对称能高密行为的一些敏感观测量及其最新进展, 以及所面临的挑战与机遇。One of the major tasks of studying isospin physics via heavy ion collisions with neutron rich nuclei, is to explore the isospin dependence of in medium nuclear effective interactions and the equation of state of neutron rich nuclear matter, i.e., the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy. Because of its great importance for understanding many phenomena in both nuclear physics and astrophysics, the study of the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy has been the main focus of the intermediate energy heavy ion physics community during the last decade. Nowadays significant progress has been achieved in studying the low density behavior of nuclear symmetry energy, but the high density behavior of nuclear symmetry energy is still very uncertain. Theoretically, a number of observables have been proposed as sensitive probes to the high density behavior of nuclear symmetry energy. With new opportunities provided by the various radioactive beam facilities being constructed around the world, studies of the high density behavior of nuclear symmetry energy is expected to be one of the main forefront research areas in nuclear physics in the near future. In this report, based on the transport model IBUU we have reviewed the major progress achieved in studying the high density behavior of nuclear symmetry energy and discussed future challenges in this field.     

核物质热力学性质的同位旋和动量相关性

利用3个具有不同的同位旋和动量相关性的热力学模型研究了非对称核物质的热力学性质, 它们是重离子碰撞中同位旋弥散数据约束下的、 同位旋和动量相关的MDI模型, 完全动量无关的MID模型, 以及同位旋标量动量相关的extended MDYI(eMDYI)模型。 主要研究了同位旋非对称热核物质的对称能和系统力、 化学不稳定性以及液气相变的温度效应。 MDI模型对称能的温度效应来源于动能和势能两部分贡献, 而MID和eMDYI模型只有势能部分对对称能的温度效应有贡献。 研究结果还表明, 力学不稳定性区域、 化学不稳定性区域和液气共存区都依赖于模型的同位旋和动量相关性, 以及对称能的密度依赖关系。In this article, three models with different isospin and momentum dependence are used to study the thermodynamical properties of asymmetric nuclear matter. They are isospin and momentum dependent MDI interaction constrained by the isospin diffusion data of heavy ion collision, the momentum independent MID interaction and the isoscalar momentum dependent eMDYI interaction. Temperature effects of symmetry energy, mechanical and chemical instability and liquid gas phase transition are analyzed. It is found that for MDI model the temperature effects of the symmetry energy attribute from both the kinetic and potential energy, while only potential part contributes to the decreasing of the symmetry energy for MID and eMDYI models. We also find that the mechanical instability, chemical instability and liquid gas phase transition are all sensitive to the isospin and momentum dependence and the density dependence of the symmetry energy.     

核物质和夸克物质的对称能（英文）

对称能表征了同位旋非对称强相互作用物质状态方程的同位旋相关部分,它对于理解核物理和天体物理中的许多问题有重要意义。简要总结了关于核物质和夸克物质对称能研究的最新进展。对于核物质对称能,通过对核结构,核反应以及中子星的研究,目前对其亚饱和密度的行为已有比较清楚的认识,同时,对饱和密度附近对称能的约束也取得了很好的研究进展。但如何确定核物质对称能的高密行为仍然是一个挑战。另一方面,在极端高重子数密度条件下,强相互作用物质将以退禁闭的夸克物质状态存在。同位旋非对称夸克物质可能存在于致密星内部,也可能产生于极端相对论重离子碰撞中。对最近关于夸克物质对称能对夸克星性质的影响以及重夸克星的存在对夸克物质对称能的约束的研究工作进行了介绍,结果表明同位旋非对称夸克物质中上夸克和下夸克可能感受到很不一样的相互作用,这对于研究极端相对论重离子碰撞中部分子动力学的同位旋效应有重要启发。The symmetry energy characterizes the isospin dependent part of the equation of state of isospin asymmetric strong interaction matter and it plays a critical role in many issues of nuclear physics and astrophysics. In this talk, we briefly review the current status on the determination of the symmetry energy in nucleon (nuclear) and quark matter. For nuclear matter, while the subsaturation density behaviors of the symmetry energy are relatively well-determined and significant progress has been made on the symmetry energy around saturation density, the determination of the suprasaturation density behaviors of the symmetry energy remains a big challenge. For quark matter, which is expected to appear in dense matter at high baryon densities, we briefly review the recent work about the effects of quark matter symmetry energy on the properties of quark stars and the constraint of possible existence of heavy quark stars on quark matter symmetry energy. The results indicate that the u and d quarks could feel very different interactions in isospin asymmetric quark matter, which may have important implications on the isospin effects of partonic dynamics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions.     

非对称核物质不可压缩系数的微观计算(英文)

在带微观三体力的Brueckner-Hartree-Fock方法下研究了非对称核物质的不可压缩系数,得到了不可压缩系数的同位旋以及密度依赖, 并做了进一步的讨论。在一定密度下,不可压缩系数作为同位旋非对称度的函数随同位旋单调递增。 预测了非对称核物质在平衡态的同位旋依赖性质并与其他理论方法做了比较。 We have investigated the incompressibility of asymmetric nuclear matter within the Brueckner Hartree Fock approach extended to include a microscopic three body force. The isospin dependence and density dependence of the nuclear incompressibility have been obtained and discussed. It is shown that the incompressibility at a fixed density increases monotonically as a function of isospin asymmetry. The isospin asymmetry dependence of the equilibrium properties of asymmetric nuclear matter is also predicted and compared with the results of other theoretical approaches.     

核物质的对称能与中子皮厚度(英文)

在现有的平均场模型中引入同位旋相关的高阶修正项．研究了核物质对称能的密度依赖性和。^208Pb的中子皮厚度。采用新提出的PK1相互作用以及NL3．S271和Z271相互作用．得到核物质饱和点对称能的范围为29-38MeV以及相应的^208Pb中子皮厚度为0．17—0.28fm．在所有相互作用中，核物质饱和点的对称能与^208Pb的中子皮厚度近似呈线性关系。After adding isospin dependent high order correction terms to existing relativistic mean field models (RMF), the density dependence of symmetry energy and the neutron skin thickness S for 208Pb are studied. Using the new effective interaction PK1, together with NL3, S271 and Z271, a range of 29—38 MeV for the symmetry energy for nuclear matter at saturation point and the corresponding neutron skin thickness S = 0.14—0.28 fm for 208Pb are obtained. For all effective interactions, a linear relation between the symmetry energy at saturation point and the neutron skin thickness for 208Pb is observed.     

Decomposition of the equation of state of asymmetric nuclear matter into different spin-isospin channels

We investigate the equation of state of asymmetric nuclear matter and its isospin dependence in various spin-isospin ST channels within the framework of the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock approach extended to include a microscopic three-body force（TBF） . It is shown that the potential energy per nucleon in the isospinsinglet T = 0 channel is mainly determined by the contribution from the tensor SD coupled channel. At high densities,the TBF effect on the isospin-triplet T = 1 channel contribution turns out to be much larger than that on the T =0 channel contribution. At low densities around and below the normal nuclear matter density,the isospin dependence is found to come essentially from the isospin-singlet SD channel and the isospin-triplet T = 1 component is almost independent of isospin asymmetry. As the density increases,the T = 1 channel contribution becomes sensitive to the isospin asymmetry and at high enough densities its isospin dependence may even become more pronounced than that of the T = 0 contribution. The present results may provide some microscopic constraints for improving effective nucleon-nucleon interactions in a nuclear medium and for constructing new functionals of effective nucleon-nucleon interaction based on microscopic many-body theories.     

原子核对称能对中子星壳层结构的影响

中子星内壳层中存在原子核、中子、电子等非均匀分布的物质。在Wigner-Seitz近似下,共存相方法和自洽Thomas-Fermi近似方法是描述这种非均匀物质的有效方法。中子在非均匀物质所占的比例远远大于其他组分,因此原子核的对称能对非均匀物质的性质会产生十分重要的影响,而原子核对称能的密度依赖关系在核物质饱和密度附近有较大的不确定性。采用相对论平均场理论描述核子间相互作用,研究原子核对称能对中子星内壳层的密度范围、pasta相结构、壳核相变密度等性质的影响,探寻其中可能存在的关联。计算结果表明,原子核对称能及其密度依赖性在决定中子星内壳层非均匀物质的性质中起着重要作用,这与之前相关研究中得到的结论基本相符。Within Wigner-Seitz approximation, both the coexisting phases method and the self-consistent Thomas-Fermi approximation can be used to describe the nonuniform matter consisting of nuclei, neutrons, and electrons, which may coexist in the inner crust of neutron star. Since the neutron fraction is very large, nuclear symmetry energy may have an important impact on the properties of nonuniform matter. However, the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy around saturation density is still rather uncertain. This paper focuses on the influence of nuclear symmetry energy on the density range of inner crust, pasta phase structure, and crust-core transition density of neutron star, where the relativistic mean field theory is adopted to describe the nucleon-nucleon interaction. It is turned out that the nuclear symmetry energy and its density dependence play an import role in determining the properties of nonuniform matter in the inner crust of neutron star, which is consistent with the former related studies.     

Extraction of Nuclear Matter Properties from Nuclear Masses by a Model of Equation of State

The extraction of nuclear matter properties from measured nuclear masses is investigated in the energy density functional formalism of nuclei.It is shown that the volume energy a1 and the nuclear incompressibility Ko depend essentially on μnN - - pZ - 2EN,whereas the symmetry energy J and the density symmetry coefficient L as well as symmetry incompressibility Ks depend essentially on μn - μp,where μp ＝μp - Ec/ Z,μn and μp are the neutron and proton chemical potentials respectively,EN the nuclear energy,and Ec the Coulomb energy.The obtained symmetry energy is J ＝ 28.5 MeV,while other coefficients are uncertain within ranges depending on the model of nuclear equation of state.``     

中能重离子反应中对称势对熵的影响

基于同位旋相关的量子分子动力学模型,研究了对称势、束流能量、对称能强度系数对中能重离子碰撞反应系统的熵的影响。研究发现,对称势对熵有一定影响,且对熵的影响大小与反应系统中质比有关。另外发现在40Ca+40Ca和40Si+40Si反应系统中对称能强度系数对熵也有影响,当对称能强度系数c=32 MeV时,对这两个系统来说其对熵的影响最大。通过实验上对熵的测量可以得到对称势的形式和大小。Based on the isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics model,effects of the symmetry potential,incident beam energy and different symmetry energy strength coefficients on the entropy of reaction system are studied.The results show that the symmetry potential affects the entropy,and the effect changes with the neutron-proton ratio of the reaction system.Besides,in 40Ca+40Ca and 40Si+40Sireaction systems,the symmetry energy strength coefficient also has effect on the entropy when the symmetry energy strength coefficient c=32 MeV,the effect on the entropy is largest for the two systems.Therefore the form and size of symmetry potential could be obtained by comparison of the model calculation and the experiments on the measurement of entropy.     

Decomposition of the equation of state of asymmetric nuclear matter into different spin-isospin channels

We investigate the equation of state of asymmetric nuclear matter and its isospin dependence in various spin-isospin ST channels within the framework of the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock approach extended to include a microscopic three-body force (TBF). It is shown that the potential energy per nucleon in the isospin-singlet T=0 channel is mainly determined by the contribution from the tensor SD coupled channel. At high densities, the TBF effect on the lsospin-triplet T=1 channel contribution turns out to be much larger than that on the T=0 channel contribution. At low densities around and below the normal nuclear matter density, the isospin dependence is found to come essentially from the isospin-singlet SD channel and the isospin-triplet T=1 component is almost independent of isospin asymmetry. As the density increases, the T=1 channel contribution becomes sensitive to the isospin asymmetry and at high enough densities its isospin dependence may even become more pronounced than that of the T=0 contribution. The present results may provide some microscopic constraints for improving effective nucleon-nucleon interactions in a nuclear medium and for constructing new functionals of effective nucleon-nucleon interaction based on microscopic many-body theories.     

Effect of tensor correlations on the depletion of nuclear Fermi sea within the extended BHF approach

We have investigated the effect of tensor correlations on the depletion of the nuclear Fermi sea in symmetric nuclear matter within the framework of the extended Brueckner-Hartree-Fock approach by adopting the AV 18 two-body interaction and a microscopic three-body force.The contributions from various partial wave channels including the isospin-singlet T = 0 channel,the isospin-triplet T = 1 channel and the T = 0 tensor ~3SD_1 channel have been calculated.The T =0 neutron-proton correlations play a dominant role in causing the depletion of nuclear Fermi sea.The T =0 correlation-induced depletion turns out to stem almost completely from the ~3SD_1 tensor channel.The isospin-singlet T = 0 ~3SD_1 tensor correlations are shown to be responsible for most of the depletion,which amounts to more than 70 percent of the total depletion in the density region considered.The three-body force turns out to lead to an enhancement of the depletion at high densities well above the empirical saturation density and its effect increases as a function of density.     

The Fourth-Order Symmetry Energy of Finite Nuclei

The fourth-order symmetry energy E_sym,4(A) of heavy nuclei is investigated based on the Skyrme energy density functional in combination with a local density approximation. Unlike some previous works, in our method, the interferences from the other energy terms are removed since it is completely isolated from the rest of energy terms. The calculated E_sym,4(A) is much less than that extracted from nuclear masses. The underlying reason for the big difference is discussed. The Brueckner theory also gives a small fourth-order symmetry energy coefficient of nuclear matter, which is also different from recent conclusions with another methods.     

Temperature Effects on the Equation of State and Symmetry Energy at Low and High Densities

Thermal properties of symmetric nuclear matter and pure neutron matter are studied in a selfconsistent Green’s function and Brueckner–Hartree–Fock approaches with the inclusion of the contact interaction using CDBONN potential. Also we investigate the temperature dependence of the symmetry energy. The symmetry energy at fixed density is found to generally decrease with temperature. The temperature effects on the nuclear matter symmetry energy are found to be stronger at lower densities while become much weaker at higher densities. The results of several microscopic approaches are compared. Also the results are compared with recent experimental data. There is good agreement between the experimental symmetry energy and those calculated in the Brueckner–Hartree–Fock approach.     

Nuclear matter and neutron star properties with the extendedNambu-Jona-Lasinio model

An extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio(eNJL) model with nucleons as the degrees of freedom is used to investigate properties of nuclear matter and neutron stars(NSs),including the binding energy and symmetry energy of the nuclear matter, the core-crust transition density, and mass-radius relation of NSs. The fourth-order symmetry energy at saturation density is also investigated. When the bulk properties of nuclear matter at saturation density are used to determine the model parameters, the double solutions of parameters are obtained for a given nuclear incompressibility. It is shown that the isovector-vector interaction has a significant influence on the nuclear matter and NS properties, and the sign of isovector-vector coupling constant is critical in the determination of the trend of the symmetry energy and equation of state. The effects of the other model parameters and symmetry energy slope at saturation density are discussed.     

The nuclear symmetry energy from relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock model

The microscopic mechanisms of the symmetry energy in nuclear matter are investigated in the framework of the relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (RBHF) model with a high-precision realistic nuclear potential, pvCDBonn A. The kinetic energy and potential contributions to symmetry energy are decomposed. They are explicitly expressed by the nucleon self-energies, which are obtained through projecting the G-matrices from the RBHF model into the terms of Lorentz covariants. The nuclear medium effects on the nucleon self-energy and nucleon-nucleon interaction in symmetry energy are discussed by comparing the results from the RBHF model and those from Hartree-Fock and relativistic Hartree-Fock models. It is found that the nucleon self-energy including the nuclear medium effect on the single-nucleon wave function provides a largely positive contribution to the symmetry energy, while the nuclear medium effect on the nucleon-nucleon interaction, i.e., the effective G-matrices provides a negative contribution. The tensor force plays an essential role in the symmetry energy around the density. The scalar and vector covariant amplitudes of nucleon-nucleon interaction dominate the potential component of the symmetry energy. Furthermore, the isoscalar and isovector terms in the optical potential are extracted from the RBHF model. The isoscalar part is consistent with the results from the analysis of global optical potential, while the isovector one has obvious differences at higher incident energy due to the relativistic effect.     

Flow probe of symmetry energy in relativistic heavy-ion reactions

Various definitions of the symmetry energy are introduced for nuclei, dilute nuclear matter below saturation density and stellar matter, which is found in compact stars or core-collapse supernovae. The resulting differences are exemplified by calculations in a theoretical approach based on a generalized relativistic density functional for dense matter. It contains nucleonic clusters as explicit degrees of freedom with medium-dependent properties that are derived for light clusters from a quantum statistical approach. With such a model the dissolution of clusters at high densities can be described. The effects of the liquid-gas phase transition in nuclear matter and of cluster formation in stellar matter on the density dependence of the symmetry energy are studied for different temperatures. It is observed that correlations and the formation of inhomogeneous matter at low densities and temperatures causes an increase of the symmetry energy as compared to calculations assuming a uniform uncorrelated spatial distribution of constituent baryons and leptons.     

The importance of the self-interaction correction for Jahn–Teller distortion of the zinc vacancy in ZnGeP2

A cluster model is used to investigate the zinc vacancy in zinc germanium diphosphide in unrestricted Hartree–Fock method and density functional theory (DFT) with the B3LYP functional. While DFT maintains the symmetry of the defect, Hartree–Fock method, which is self-interaction free, predicts a symmetry breaking with the defect electron localizing on a single P atom instead of being equally spread over the four neighboring P atoms. While this distortion does not yet agree with the experimental observation of a pairing of P atoms, it illustrates the importance of the self-interaction and the difficulty in identifying the true minimum energy configuration of point defects in semiconductors.     

Density-Dependence of Nuclear Symmetry Energy: Role of QCD Chiral Phase Transition

The density-dependence of symmetry energy is of particular importance to many problems in nuclear physics and astrophysics. By using the functional path integral method, we show explicitly the relation between nuclear symmetry energy and isospin susceptibility. The latter one is found to be a probe to the QCD chiral phase transition. We further found in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model calculations that, the nuclear symmetry energy has an abrupt change at the critical nuclear density where the chiral symmetry restores partially.     

重离子碰撞中同位旋自由度输运和对称能约束

重离子核反应是地面实验室研究核物质状态方程的有效手段。当核物质体系 (包括原子核) 中的中子和质子数目差异很大时,核物质状态方程中除了对称核物质贡献之外,对称能项的贡献逐渐变得重要。它反映了核子相互作用势的同位旋矢量部分,与致密星体的性质和恒星核合成等天体物理基本问题,以及远离β稳定线原子核的奇异性质与核素图边界等核物理前沿问题,都紧密相关。然而,迄今为止,对称能对密度的依赖行为尚未很精确地约束。因此,对称能的研究成为当前国际上主要的中能核物理实验室和天体观测装置的主要物理目标之一。本文简单评述了这一领域的实验进展,并介绍了基于国内的大科学装置,即兰州重离子研究装置(HIRFL)开展费米能区重离子反应与对称能实验研究的一些进展。实验结果表明,这一能区的同位旋自由度输运时标和具体的物理过程相关,同位旋漂移效应可能持续到反应晚期。由于同位旋效应的长时间积累,轻粒子同位旋的角度分布可以用来约束对称能的密度依赖,在饱和点附近对称能值为$ S\!=\!28.3 $ MeV的条件下,其斜率参数约束在$L\!=\!33\!\sim\! 61\,\mathrm{M}\mathrm{e}\mathrm{V}$的区间,置信度水平为95%。借助一套具有裂变碎片和带电粒子符合测量能力的高性能重离子反应测量谱仪,可以测量具有同位素分辨的带电粒子小角关联函数,从而给出费米能区重离子反应中同位旋驰豫的时标。最后,介绍了氘核的同位旋矢量极化效应,该效应可能提供一种全新的约束对称能密度依赖的途径。