Abstract
Starting from the binding energies of finite or isolated nuclei, to investigate ways to study inhomogeneous nuclear matter, i.e., nuclei with a free gas of neutrons, we review and discuss a general method to solve the nuclear equation of state for neutron stars by finding the solution for uniform nuclear matter. We also discuss a way to develop the nuclear equation of state in the presence of hyperons. The mass-radius relations of neutron stars are compared with the results of X-ray burst analyses to probe the validities of various models for the nuclear equation of state in neutron star physics.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1571-1577 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | New Physics: Sae Mulli |
Volume | 66 |
Issue number | 12 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2016 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We are grateful to Ho-Meoyng Choi and Chang Ho Hyun for fruitful discussions. Y. Lim also thanks Jeremy W. Holt for providing asymmetric nuclear matter EOS from chiral effective field theory calculations. The work of T.K. and Y.O. was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea under Grant Nos. NRF- 2015R1D1A1A01059603 and 2016K1A3A7A09005577.
Keywords
- Neutron star
- Nuclear equation of state
- Nuclear matter
- Nuclear properties