{
  "id": "0704.2340",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2007-04-18T04:13:32.000Z",
  "updated": "2007-04-18T04:13:32.000Z",
  "title": "Probing the Nuclear Symmetry Energy with Heavy-Ion Reactions Induced by Neutron-Rich Nuclei",
  "authors": [
    "Lie-Wen Chen",
    "Che Ming Ko",
    "Bao-An Li",
    "Gao-Chan Yong"
  ],
  "comment": "29 pages, 35 figures. Invited review article for Frontiers of Physics in China",
  "journal": "Front.Phys.China2:327-357,2007",
  "doi": "10.1007/s11467-007-0037-0",
  "categories": [
    "nucl-th",
    "astro-ph",
    "nucl-ex"
  ],
  "abstract": "Heavy-ion reactions induced by neutron-rich nuclei provide a unique means to investigate the equation of state of isospin-asymmetric nuclear matter, especially the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy. In particular, recent analyses of the isospin diffusion data in heavy-ion reactions have already put a stringent constraint on the nuclear symmetry energy around the nuclear matter saturation density. We review this exciting result and discuss its implications on nuclear effective interactions and the neutron skin thickness of heavy nuclei. In addition, we also review the theoretical progress on probing the high density behaviors of the nuclear symmetry energy in heavy-ion reactions induced by high energy radioactive beams.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2007-04-18T04:13:32.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "21.30.Fe",
      "24.10.Lx",
      "25.70.-z"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "nuclear symmetry energy",
      "heavy-ion reactions",
      "neutron-rich nuclei",
      "nuclear matter saturation density",
      "isospin-asymmetric nuclear matter"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "review article",
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "journal": "Frontiers of Physics in China",
      "year": 2007,
      "month": "Jul",
      "volume": 2,
      "number": 3,
      "pages": 327
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 29,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 748814,
      "adsabs": "2007FrPhC...2..327C"
    }
  }
}