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Giant monopole resonance and nuclear compression modulus for 40Ca and 16O
Using a collective potential derived on the basis of the Generator Coordinate
Method with Skyrme interactions we obtain values for the compression modulus of
40Ca which are in good agreement with a recently obtained experimental value.
Calculated values for the compression modulus for 16O are also given. The
procedure involved in the derivation of the collective potential is briefly
reviewed and discussed.Comment: 14 pages, no figures, two tables, REVTE
Innermost Stable Circular Orbits and Epicyclic Frequencies Around a Magnetized Neutron Star
A full-relativistic approach is used to compute the radius of the innermost
stable circular orbit (ISCO), the Keplerian, frame-dragging, precession and
oscillation frequencies of the radial and vertical motions of neutral test
particles orbiting the equatorial plane of a magnetized neutron star. The
space-time around the star is modelled by the six parametric solution derived
by Pachon et al. It is shown that the inclusion of an intense magnetic field,
such as the one of a neutron star, have non-negligible effects on the above
physical quantities, and therefore, its inclusion is necessary in order to
obtain a more accurate and realistic description of the physical processes
occurring in the neighbourhood of this kind of objects such as the dynamics of
accretion disk. The results discussed here also suggest that the consideration
of strong magnetic fields may introduce non-negligible corrections in, e.g.,
the relativistic precession model and therefore on the predictions made on the
mass of neutron stars.Comment: LaTeX file, 13 pages, 4 figure
Color screening in a constituent quark model of hadronic matter
The effect of color screening on the formation of a heavy quark-antiquark
() bound state--such as the meson--is studied using a
constituent-quark model. The response of the nuclear medium to the addition of
two color charges is simulated directly in terms of its quark constituents via
a string-flip potential that allows for quark confinement within hadrons yet
enables the hadrons to separate without generating unphysical long-range
forces. Medium modifications to the properties of the heavy meson, such as its
energy and its mean-square radius, are extracted by solving Schr\"odinger's
equation for the pair in the presence of a (screened)
density-dependent potential. The density dependence of the heavy-quark
potential is in qualitative agreement with earlier studies of its temperature
dependence extracted from lattice calculations at finite temperature. In the
present model it is confirmed that abrupt changes in the properties of the
-meson in the hadronic medium ({\it plasma}), correlate strongly with
the deconfining phase transition.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRC for publication, uses revtex
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