{
  "id": "1309.2783",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2013-09-11T10:39:20.000Z",
  "updated": "2013-09-11T10:39:20.000Z",
  "title": "Symmetry energy: nuclear masses and neutron stars",
  "authors": [
    "J. M. Pearson",
    "N. Chamel",
    "A. F. Fantina",
    "S. Goriely"
  ],
  "comment": "10 pages, 9 figures, to appear in EPJA special volume on symmetry energy",
  "categories": [
    "nucl-th",
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "We describe the main features of our most recent Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov nuclear mass models, based on 16-parameter generalized Skyrme forces. They have been fitted to the data of the 2012 Atomic Mass Evaluation, and favour a value of 30 MeV for the symmetry coefficient J, the corresponding root-mean square deviation being 0.549 MeV. We find that this conclusion is compatible with measurements of neutron-skin thickness. By constraining the underlying interactions to fit various equations of state of neutron matter calculated {\\it ab initio} our models are well adapted to a realistic and unified treatment of all regions of neutron stars. We use our models to calculate the composition, the equation of state, the mass-radius relation and the maximum mass. Comparison with observations of neutron stars again favours a value of J = 30 MeV.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2013-09-11T10:39:20.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "neutron stars",
      "nuclear masses",
      "symmetry energy",
      "hartree-fock-bogoliubov nuclear mass models",
      "atomic mass evaluation"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1140/epja/i2014-14043-8",
      "journal": "European Physical Journal A",
      "year": 2014,
      "month": "Feb",
      "volume": 50,
      "pages": 43
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 10,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 1253691,
      "adsabs": "2014EPJA...50...43P"
    }
  }
}