Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2001-09-26
Nucl.Phys. A699 (2002) 493-510
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
18 pages & 15 figures, Nuclear Physics A (2001) in press
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0375-9474(01)01291-X
The isospin-dependence of mechanical and chemical instabilities is investigated within a thermal and nuclear transport model using a Skyrme-type phenomenological equation of state for neutron-rich matter. Respective roles of the nuclear mean field and the 2-body stochastic scattering on the evolution of density and isospin fluctuations in either mechanically or chemically unstable regions of neutron-rich matter are investigated. It is found that the mean field dominates overwhelmingly the fast growth of both fluctuations, while the 2-body scattering influences significantly the later growth of the isospin fluctuation only. The magnitude of both fluctuations decreases with the increasing isospin asymmetry because of the larger reduction of the attractive isoscalar mean field by the stronger repuslive neutron symmetry potential in the more neutron-rich matter. Moreover, it is shown that the isospin fractionation happens later, but grows faster in the more neutron-rich matter. Implications of these results to current experiments exploring properties of neutron-rich matter are discussed.
Li Bao-An
Sustich Andrew T.
Tilley Matt
Zhang Bin
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