Expanding the limits of nuclear stability at finite temperature

Znanstveni rad - Izvorni znanstveni rad

• Autor: Ante Ravlić
• Autor: Esra Yüksel
• Autor: Tamara Nikšić
• Autor: Nils Paar
• Autorova ustanova: Sveučilište u Zagrebu; Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet; (Fizički odsjek)
• Znanstveno / umjetničko područje, polje i grana: PRIRODNE ZNANOSTI; Fizika

Sažetak (engleski)

Properties of nuclei in hot stellar environments such as supernovae or neutron star mergers are largely unexplored. Since it is poorly understood how many protons and neutrons can be bound together in hot nuclei, we investigate the limits of nuclear existence (drip lines) at finite temperature. Here, we present mapping of nuclear drip lines at temperatures up to around 20 billion kelvins using the relativistic energy density functional theory (REDF), including treatment of thermal scattering of nucleons in the continuum. With extensive computational effort, the drip lines are determined using several REDFs with different underlying interactions, demonstrating considerable alterations of the neutron drip line with temperature increase, especially near the magic numbers. At temperatures T ≲ 12 billion kelvins, the interplay between the properties of nuclear effective interaction, pairing, and temperature effects determines the nuclear binding. At higher temperatures, we find a surprizing result that the total number of bound nuclei increases with temperature due to thermal shell quenching. Our findings provide insight into nuclear landscape for hot nuclei, revealing that the nuclear drip lines should be viewed as limits that change dynamically with temperature.

• Ključne riječi (engleski): nuclear stability; finite temperature
• Jezik: engleski
• Vrsta publikacije: Znanstveni rad - Izvorni znanstveni rad
• Status objave: Objavljen
• Vrsta recenzije: Recenziran - međunarodna recenzija
• Verzija publikacije: Objavljena verzija rada (izdavačev PDF)
• Naslov časopisa: Nature Communications
• Brojčani podaci: vol. 14, br. 1, 4834
• e-ISSN: 2041-1723
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40613-2
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:217:275085
• Datum objave publikacije: 2023-08-10
• Projekt: Šifra: KK.01.1.1.01.0004; Naziv (engleski): QuantiXLie Center of Excellence; Kratica: QuantiXLie; Voditelj: Buljan, Hrvoje; Pandžić, Pavle; Pravna nadležnost: eu; Financijer: Croatian Government and European Union; Linija financiranja: European Regional Development Fund - the Competitiveness and Cohesion Operational Programme
• URL dokumenta: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40613-2
• Vrsta resursa: Tekst
• Prava pristupa: Otvoreni pristup
• Javna napomena: © The Author(s) 2023. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/. Received 29 November 2022; Accepted 3 August 2023; Published online 10 August 2023.
• Datum i vrijeme pohrane: 2023-08-28 12:30:55