Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2011-10-18
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 081102 (2012)
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
6 pages, 6 figures, final version, includes supplemental material
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.081102
Using a phenomenological form of the equation of state of neutron matter near the saturation density which has been previously demonstrated to be a good characterization of quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we show that currently available neutron star mass and radius measurements provide a significant constraint on the equation of state of neutron matter. At higher densities we model the equation of state using polytropes and a quark matter model, and we show that our results do not change strongly upon variation of the lower boundary density where these polytropes begin. Neutron star observations offer an important constraint on a coefficient which is directly connected to the strength of the three-body force in neutron matter, and thus some theoretical models of the three-body may be ruled out by currently available astrophysical data. In addition, we obtain an estimate of the symmetry energy of nuclear matter and its slope that can be directly compared to the experiment and other theoretical calculations.
Gandolfi Stefano
Steiner Andrew W.
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