Isospin splitting of nucleon effective mass and isospin effect in heavy-ion collisions

Two different isospin splittings of nucleon effective mass in nuclear medium as the form of mn*>mp* and mn*<mp* have been implemented in an isospin and momentum dependent transport model.Their impacts on the isospin emission in heavy-ion collisions is investigated thoroughly.It is found that the yield ratios of energetic neutrons to protons squeezed out during the compression stage of two colliding nuclides are sensitive to the isospin splitting.The elliptic flows of free nucleons are also to be promising observables for extracting the nucleon effective mass splitting.Further experimental measurements are being expected,in particular at the CSR-CEE platform in Lanzhou.Several observables are proposed for constraining the density dependence of symmetry energy,such as the transverse flow difference of neutrons and protons,double ratios of n/p and π-/π+,excitation functions of π-/π+ and K0/K+.

Bayesian inference on isospin splitting of nucleon effective mass from giant resonances in^(208)Pb

From a Bayesian analysis of the electric dipole polarizability,the constrained energy of isovector giant dipole resonance,the peak energy of isocalar giant quadrupole resonance,and the constrained energy of isocalar gi-ant monopole resonance in 208Pb,we extract the isoscalar and isovector effective masses in nuclear matter at satura-tion density ρ0 as m^(*)_(s.0)/m=0.87^(+)_(-004) and m^(*)_(v.0)/m=0.78^(+006)_(-006),respectively,at 90%confdence level.The con-straints obtained on m^(*)_(d.0) and m^(*)_(v.0) lead to a positive isospin splitting of nucleon effective mass in asymmetric nuclear matter of isospin asymmetry σ at ρ0 as m^(*)_(n-p)/m=(0.20^(0.15)_(0.14)σ.In addition,the symmetry energy at the subsatura-tion density ρ^(*)=0.05 fm^(-3) is determined to be E_(sym)(ρ^(*))=16.7±1.3 MeV at 90%confidence level.

Effects of density-and momentum-dependent potentials in Au+Au collisions at intermediate energies

Based on an isospin-dependent transport model, the effects of the density- and momentum-dependent potentials are studied by simulating Au on Au collisions at 90, 120, 150 and 400 MeV/nucleon. It is found that the calculated results overestimate the experimental data on the directed flow and underestimate the data on the elliptic flow for protons. The impact of the density- and momentum-dependent potentials is observed in the mid-rapidity region of the final spectra. At 90 MeV/nucleon, the momentum-dependent potential has a larger impact on the observables than the density-dependent potential, and the elliptic flow has a higher value with the positive effective mass splitting. At 400 MeV/nucleon, however, the opposite is observed. The rapidity dependence of the elliptic flow for protons is sensitive to the symmetry energy. A soft symmetry energy corresponds to a higher value of the proton elliptic flow.