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

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Figure 2.14: <strong>Neutron</strong> <strong>and</strong> proton density pr<strong>of</strong>iles <strong>for</strong> nuclei in the cold crust <strong>of</strong> a neutronstar. The optimum nucleus <strong>for</strong> each density ρ (fm −3 ) is shown, together with the pressure p(MeV fm −3 ), the total internal energy per baryon E (MeV), the charge radius R p (fm), theneutron skin thickness R n −R p , <strong>and</strong> the chemical potentials µ n ,µ p <strong>and</strong> µ e (MeV). N,Z <strong>and</strong>N nuc are defined in the text. R c is the Wigner-Seitz cell size <strong>and</strong> E β is the energy <strong>of</strong> uni<strong>for</strong>mnuclear matter in beta equilibrium.36

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