https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20146607023
Relativistic EOS for supernova simulations
School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
a e-mail: shennankai@gmail.com
Published online: 20 March 2014
We study the relativistic equation of state (EOS) of dense matter covering a wide range of temperature, proton fraction, and baryon density for the use of supernova simulations. This work is based on the relativistic mean-field theory (RMF) and the Thomas-Fermi approximation. The Thomas-Fermi approximation in combination with assumed nucleon distribution functions and a free energy minimization is adopted to describe the non-uniform matter, which is composed of a lattice of heavy nuclei. We treat the uniform matter and non-uniform matter consistently using the same RMF theory. We compare the EOS tables in detail.
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