Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 150, 21-22 (2007)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2007-00255-y

Isotope analysis in central heavy ion collisions at intermediate energies

¹ Dipartimento di Fisica and Sezione INFN di Bologna, Universita' di Bologna, viale C. Berti Pichat, 40127 Bologna, Italy
² Dipartimento di Fisica and Sezione INFN di Trieste, Via Valerio 2, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
³ Dipartimento di Fisica and Sezione INFN di Firenze, I-50125 Firenze, Italy
⁴ INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro, Italy
⁵ Dipartimento di Fisica and Sezione INFN di Milano, I-20122 Milano, Italy
⁶ Dipartimento di Fisica and Sezione, INFN di Napoli, via Cintia, I-80126 Napoli, Italy

Received: 31 January 2007
Published online: 8 December 2007

Abstract

Symmetry energy is a key quantity in the study of the equation of state of asymmetric nuclear matter. Heavy ion collisions at low and intermediate energies, performed at Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro and Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, can be used to extract information on the symmetry energy coefficient C_sym, which is currently poorly known but relevant both for astrophysics and for deeper knowledge of the structure of exotic nuclei.