EOS of neutron-rich matter and pure neutron matter

Abstract

We report the equation of state (EOS) of pure neutron matter (PNM) and neutron-rich matter (NRM) for the realistic Urbana V14 two nucleon interaction, obtained by using a Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) method. Also, many body interactions are included as a phenomenological density dependent term in the potential. The binding energy per nucleon is calculated for different densities and various isospin asymmetry parameters. Our results on NRM and PNM are compared with relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory and relativistic Hartree-Fock model with the unitary correlation operator method. The results obtained in this study show reasonable agreement with both of these relativistic Hartree-Fock approaches. We also compare the binding energies obtained in this study with those obtained by various authors employing different methods and techniques.