Isospin effects and the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Sergio Ricardo de Azevedo
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Tsang, M. B., Carlson, Brett Vern, Donangelo, Raul José, Lynch, William G., Steiner, Andrew W.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10183/104180
• topic: Física nuclear; Reacoes nucleares; Forcas nucleares; Fragmentação nuclear; Isospin nuclear; Densidade nuclear; Equações de estado

The density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy is inspected using the statistical multifragmentation model with Skyrme effective interactions. The model consistently considers the expansion of the fragments' volumes at finite temperature at the freeze-out stage. By selecting parametrizations of the Skyrme force that lead to very different equations of state for the symmetry energy, we investigate the sensitivity of the isoscaling parameter and the isotopic distributions to differences in the symmetry energy. Our results suggest that, in spite of being sensitive to the thermal dilation of the fragments' volumes, it is difficult to distinguish among the Skyrme forces from the isoscaling analysis. On the other hand, the isotopic distribution of the emitted fragments turns out to be very sensitive to the force employed in the calculation.