New calculus of the liquid-gas phase transition is developed for the canonical ensemble of asymmetric nuclear matter. In contrast to the familiar geometrical construction, the pressure and the chemical potentials are determined for de…nite values of the baryon densities of proton and neutron and the temperature. Because the derivatives of chemical potentials by pressure have discontinuities at ...

The innuence of correlations on the critical temperature and density for the onset of superruidity in nuclear matter is investigated within the scheme of Nozi eres and Schmitt-Rink 1]. For symmetric nuclear matter a smooth transition from Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of deuteron-like bound states at low densities and low temperatures to Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieeer (BCS) pair-ing at higher dens...

The equation of state for quark and nuclear matter is encoded in the effective potential of a linear sigma model. We exploit an exact differential equation for its dependence upon the chemical potential µ associated to conserved baryon number. This equation describes the transitions from a nucleon gas to nuclear matter and from nuclear matter to quark matter within the same model. For vanishing...

In this work we investigate the so-called model-space Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (MBHF) approach for nuclear matter as well as for neutron matter and the extension of this which includes the particle-particle and hole-hole (PPHH) diagrams. A central ingredient in the model-space approach for nuclear matter is the boundary momentum kM beyond which the single-particle potential energy is set equal to...

Astrophysicists distinguish between three different kinds of compact stars. These are white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. The former contain matter in one of the densest forms found in the Universe which, together with the unprecedented progress in observational astronomy, makes such stars superb astrophysical laboratories for a broad range of most striking physical phenomena. These r...

We present an analytical description of the phase transitions from a nucleon gas to nuclear matter and from nuclear matter to quark matter within the same model. The equation of state for quark and nuclear matter is encoded in the effective potential of a linear sigma model. We exploit an exact differential equation for its dependence upon the chemical potential µ associated to conserved baryon...

We construct the nuclear and quark matter equations of state at zero temperature in an effective quark theory (the Nambu-JonaLasinio model), and discuss the phase transition between them. The nuclear matter equation of state is based on the quark-diquark description of the single nucleon, while the quark matter equation of state includes the effects of scalar diquark condensation (color superco...

A momentum-dependent mean field potential, suitable for application in the transport-model description of nucleus-nucleus collisions, is derived in a microscopic way. The derivation is based upon the Bonn meson-exchange model for the nucleon-nucleon interaction and the Dirac-Brueckner approach for nuclear matter. The properties of the microscopic mean field are examined and compared with phenom...

We consider K − nucleon elastic and inelastic scattering in isospin symmetric nuclear matter. It is found that the proper description of the Λ(1405) resonance structure in nuclear matter requires a self-consistent approach. Then the Λ(1405) resonance mass remains basically unchanged, however, the resonance acquires an increased decay width as nuclear matter is compressed. The elastic and inelas...