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Theory of Nuclear Matter for Neutron Stars and ... - Graduate Physics

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energy <strong>and</strong> the density derivative <strong>of</strong> symmetry energy. We summarize recent experimentalresults, astrophysical inference, <strong>and</strong> theoretical pure neutron mattercalculations. The correlation between symmetry energy <strong>and</strong> the surface symmetryenergy in liquid droplet model is also obtained. The beta equilibrium matteris used to model the neutron star crust.The second part <strong>of</strong> the thesis is devoted to construction <strong>of</strong> a code to computethe nuclear EOS <strong>for</strong> hot dense matter that would be distributed to astrophysicscommunity. With this code, users will be able to generate tables with adjustableparameters describing the symmetry, incompressibility, <strong>and</strong> thermal properties<strong>of</strong> nuclear matter. We use the liquid droplet approach to generate thermodynamicallyconsistent nuclear EOS. table. Compared to previous attempts, weinclude neutron skin, Coulumb diffusion, <strong>and</strong> Coulomb exchange. In addition,we compute the surface tension as a function <strong>of</strong> proton fraction <strong>and</strong> temperatureconsistently with the bulk energy. For comparison, we generate an EOS tableusing the SLy4 non-relativistic Skyrme <strong>for</strong>ce model. For both FRTF <strong>and</strong> SLy4,more than 10 % <strong>of</strong> entries <strong>of</strong> EOS tables consists <strong>of</strong> nuclei, alpha particles, <strong>and</strong>nucleons.iv

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