Nuclear matter and nuclear dynamics

Abstract

Highlights on the recent research activity, carried out by the Italian Community involved in the "Nuclear matter and nuclear dynamics" field, will be presented. In particular, we discuss new results on the Equation of State (EOS) of asymmetric nuclear matter, from microscopic many-body approaches on one side and from the study of sensitive observables in dissipative nuclear reactions on the other. Considering a wide range of beam energies, it is possible to explore the behavior of the EOS symmetry term in several conditions of density and temperature. New results concerning the structure and the life of neutron stars, that are affected by the high density behavior of asymmetric nuclear matter, will also be reported. © 2009 IOP Publishing Ltd.