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We investigate the properties of 3He, 4He, 6He, 7Li and 16O nuclei in nuclear matter of finite temperature and density. A Dyson expansion of the many-body Green function leads to few-body equations that are solved using the ntegro-Differential Equation Approach (IDEA) and the Antisymmetrized Molecular Dynamics (AMD) methods. The use of the latter method allows us to trace the individual movement of the wave packet for each nucleon and the formation and disintegration of quasi-nuclei in a changing thermodynamical nuclear matter environment.
The incompressibility (compression modulus) $K_{rm 0}$ of infinite symmetric nuclear matter at saturation density has become one of the major constraints on mean-field models of nuclear many-body systems as well as of models of high density matter in astrophysical objects and heavy-ion collisions. We present a comprehensive re-analysis of recent data on GMR energies in even-even $^{rm 112-124}$Sn and $^{rm 106,100-116}$Cd and earlier data on 58 $le$ A $le$ 208 nuclei. The incompressibility of finite nuclei $K_{rm A}$ is expressed as a leptodermous expansion with volume, surface, isospin and Coulomb coefficients $K_{rm vol}$, $K_{rm surf}$, $K_tau$ and $K_{rm coul}$. textit{Assuming} that the volume coefficient $K_{rm vol}$ is identified with $K_{rm 0}$, the $K_{rm coul}$ = -(5.2 $pm$ 0.7) MeV and the contribution from the curvature term K$_{rm curv}$A$^{rm -2/3}$ in the expansion is neglected, compelling evidence is found for $K_{rm 0}$ to be in the range 250 $ < K_{rm 0} < $ 315 MeV, the ratio of the surface and volume coefficients $c = K_{rm surf}/K_{rm vol}$ to be between -2.4 and -1.6 and $K_{rm tau}$ between -840 and -350 MeV. We show that the generally accepted value of $K_{rm 0}$ = (240 $pm$ 20) MeV can be obtained from the fits provided $c sim$ -1, as predicted by the majority of mean-field models. However, the fits are significantly improved if $c$ is allowed to vary, leading to a range of $K_{rm 0}$, extended to higher values. A self-consistent simple (toy) model has been developed, which shows that the density dependence of the surface diffuseness of a vibrating nucleus plays a major role in determination of the ratio K$_{rm surf}/K_{rm vol}$ and yields predictions consistent with our findings.
Heavy mesons in nuclear matter and nuclei are analyzed within different frameworks, paying a special attention to unitarized coupled-channel approaches. Possible experimental signatures of the properties of these mesons in matter are addressed, in particular in connection with the future FAIR facility at GSI.
An introduction to nucleosynthesis, the creation of the elements in the big bang, in interstellar matter and in stars is given. The two--step process $^4$He(2n,$gamma$)$^6$He and the reverse photodisintegration $^6$He($gamma$,2n)$^4$He involving the halo nucleus $^6$He could be of importance in the $alpha$--process in type--II supernovae. The reaction rates for the above processes are calculated using three--body methods and show an enhancement of more than three orders of magnitude compared to the previous adopted value. Direct--capture calculations give similar values for the above reaction rates. Therefore, this method was also used to calculate the reaction rates of the two--step processes $^6$He(2n,$gamma$)$^8$He and $^9$Li(2n,$gamma$)$^{11}$Li and the reverse photodisintegration of $^8$He and $^{11}$Li that could be also of importance in the $alpha$-process.
We explore the appearance of light clusters at high densities of collapsing stellar cores. Special attention is paid to the unstable isotope H4, which was not included in previous studies. The importance of light clusters in the calculation of rates for neutrino matter interaction is discussed. The main conclusion is that thermodynamic quantities are only weakly sensitive to the chemical composition. The change in pressure and hence the direct change in collapse dynamics will be minor. But the change in neutrino heating and neutronization processes can be significant.
The use of the Boson Loop Expansion is proposed for investigating the static properties of nuclear matter. We explicitly consider a schematic dynamical model in which nucleons interact with the scalar-isoscalar sigma meson. The suggested approximation scheme is examined in detail at the mean field level and at the one- and two-loop orders. The relevant formulas are provided to derive the binding energy per nucleon, the pressure and the compressibility of nuclear matter. Numerical results of the binding energy at the one-loop order are presented for Waleckas sigma-omega model in order to discuss the degree of convergence of the Boson Loop Expansion.