Shock waves in nuclear matter - proof by circumstantial evidence

Identification by circumstantial evidence

The assumedly mortal remains of Queen Editha (Eadgyth) (91o–946 AD), wife of Otto the Great (912–973 AD) were subject of identification. The aim of the multi disciplinary investigations of an international research team was to test the hypothesis that the coffin indeed contained the skeletal remains of Queen Editha, as an inscription on its lid states. Biographical data of the historic Editha h...

Uniform shock waves in disordered granular matter.

The confining pressure P is perhaps the most important parameter controlling the properties of granular matter. Strongly compressed granular media are, in many respects, simple solids in which elastic perturbations travel as ordinary phonons. However, the speed of sound in granular aggregates continuously decreases as the confining pressure decreases, completely vanishing at the jamming-unjammi...

Generation of Shock Waves by Laser-matter Interaction in Confined Geometries

We study, in this paper, the mechanisms of generation of shock waves by a laser-induced plasma in confined geometry. Two models, analytical and numeric, have been developed to describe the laser-matter interaction. Experiments have been carried out with a neodymium glass laser at flux of 107 to 1011 GW/cm2, and pulse duration of 3 and 30 nanosecond. The plasma pressure in various configuration ...

Circumstantial evidence for a soft nuclear symmetry energy at suprasaturation densities.

Within an isospin- and momentum-dependent hadronic transport model, it is shown that the recent FOPI data on the pi;{-}/pi;{+} ratio in central heavy-ion collisions at SIS/GSI energies [Willy Reisdorf, Nucl. Phys. A 781, 459 (2007)10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2006.10.085] provide circumstantial evidence suggesting a rather soft nuclear symmetry energy E_{sym}(rho) at rho> or =2rho_{0} compared to the Ak...

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