Microscopic determination of the nuclear incompressibility within the nonrelativistic framework

By G. Colò, N. Giai, J. Meyer, K. Bennaceur, P. Bonche. 2004

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The nuclear incompressibility ${K}_{\ensuremath{\infty}}$ is deduced from measurements of the isoscalar giant monopole resonance (ISGMR) in medium-heavy nuclei, and the resulting value turns out to be model dependent. Since the considered nuclei have neutron excess, it has been suggested that the model dependence is due to the different behavior of the symmetry energy in different models. To clarify this issue, we make a systematic and careful analysis based on new Skyrme forces, which span a wide range of values for ${K}_{\ensuremath{\infty}}$, for the value of the symmetry energy at saturation and for its density dependence. By calculating, in a fully self-consistent fashion, the ISGMR centroid energy in $^{208}\mathrm{Pb}$, we reach three important conclusions: (i) the monopole energy, and consequently the deduced value of ${K}_{\ensuremath{\infty}}$, depend on a well-defined parameter related to the shape of the symmetry energy curve and called ${K}_{\mathit{sym}}$; (ii) Skyrme forces of the type of SLy4 predict ${K}_{\ensuremath{\infty}}$ around $230\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{MeV}$, in agreement with the Gogny force (previous estimates using Skyrme interactions having been plagued by a lack of full self-consistency); (iii) it is possible to build forces which predict ${K}_{\ensuremath{\infty}}$ around $250\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{MeV}$, although part of this increase is due to our poor knowledge of the density dependence and effective mass.

Subfields: Geophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Analytical representations of unified equations of state of neutron-star matter (2004, background): “…the incompressibility of symmetric nuclear matter at saturationKv (which was required to fall in the experimental range 240± 10 MeV, according to Colò et al. 2004), the symmetry energy coefficient J and its slopeL, the isospin compressibilityKτ, the isoscalar and isovector eff ctive…”