Starting with a two-body effective nucleon-nucleon interaction, it is shown that the infinite nuclear matter model of atomic nuclei is more appropriate than the conventional Bethe-Weizsacker like mass formulae to extract saturation properties of nuclear matter from nuclear masses. In particular, the saturation density thus obtained agrees with that of electron scattering data and the Hartree-Fo...

A new relativistic mean-…eld model, which reproduces the astronomical observations of neutron stars and the experimental nuclear symmetry energy, is applied to warm nuclear matter. We con…rm that the model also reproduces the critical temperature and the caloric curve in the liquid-gas phase transition of nuclear matter. The recent great experimental progress [1-4] in nuclear multifragmentation...

The compressibility of nuclear matter has received significant attention in the last decade and a variety of approaches have been employed to extract this fundamental property of matter. Recently, significant differences have emerged between the results of relativistic and non-relativistic calculations of breathing mode giant monopole resonance (GMR). This is due to a lack of understanding of t...

Nuclear collisions at intermediate, relativistic, and ultra-relativistic energies offer unique opportunities to study in detail manifold fragmentation and clustering phenomena in dense nuclear matter. At intermediate energies, the well known processes of nuclear multifragmentation – the disintegration of bulk nuclear matter in clusters of a wide range of sizes and masses – allow the study of th...

The formation rate of quark matter droplets in neutron stars is calculated from a combination of bubble formation rates in cold degenerate and high temperature matter. Nuclear matter calculations of the viscosity and thermal conductivity are applied. Results show that droplets form only in the core of neutron stars shortly after supernova collapse, where pressures and temperatures are high, and...

The first results of a new three-dimensional, finite temperature Skyrme-Hartree-Fock+BCS study of the properties of inhomogeneous nuclear matter at densities and temperatures leading to the transition to uniform nuclear matter are presented. A constraint is placed on the two independent components of the quadrupole moment in order to self-consistently explore the shape phase space of nuclear co...

The incompressible liquid-drop (ILD) model reproduces masses of stable nuclei rather well. Here we show how the ILD volume, surface, symmetry, and Coulomb energies are related to equation state nuclear matter using Oyamatsu-Iida (OI) macroscopic model, which has reasonable many-body energy isoscalar inhomogeneity gradient energy. We use 304 update interactions, covering wide ranges incompressib...