Nuclear symmetry energy at subnormal densities from measured nuclear masses

作者:Liu, Min*; Wang, Ning; Li, Zhu-Xia; Zhang, Feng-Shou
来源:Physical Review C, 2010, 82(6): 064306.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevC.82.064306

摘要

The symmetry energy coefficients for nuclei with mass number A = 20-250 are extracted from more than 2000 measured nuclear masses. With the semiempirical connection between the symmetry energy coefficients of finite nuclei and the nuclear symmetry energy at reference densities, we investigate the density dependence of the symmetry energy of nuclear matter at subnormal densities. The obtained results are compared with those extracted from other methods.