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The Equation of State of Matter at Sub-Nuclear Density

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

J. W. Negele
J. W. Negele*
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 02139, U.S.A.

Abstract

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An extremely simple form for the energy density of a nuclear many-body system is derived from the two-body nucleon-nucleon interaction. This theory, which yields excellent results for energies and density distributions of finite nuclei, is used to determine the ground state configuration of matter at sub-nuclear density. As the baryon density is increased, nuclei become progressively more neutron rich until neutrons eventually escape, yielding a Coulomb lattice of bound neutron and proton clusters surrounded by a dilute neutron gas. The clusters enlarge and the lattice constant decreases with increasing density, approaching a completely uniform state near nuclear density.

Type
Research Article
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 53: Physics of Dense Matter , 1974 , pp. 1 - 25
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1974 

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