What is it about?
Many of the properties of nuclear systems are similar to those of gases. In this article we use classical Newtonian mechanics to study nuclear liquid and gaseous phases, and properties such as phase information, the Maxwell construction, spinodal lines and symmetry energy.
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Why is it important?
Large nuclear systems exist in, for instance, neutron stars, and their properties -such as its cooling- depend on the thermodynamics of such large systems.
Perspectives
Neutron-rich nuclei are now being produced in a handful of laboratories around the world, most notably FRIB in Michigan State U which started operations in 2022. The study of its properties is nowadays an urgent task, as it is the introduction of new generations to the field. This study introduced to the area of nuclear physics the undergraduate student Araceli Rodríguez Gutiérrez from the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
Dr. Jorge Alberto Lopez
University of Texas at El Paso
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This page is a summary of: Thermodynamics of neutron-rich nuclear matter, January 2016, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/1.4955359.
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