https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-023-01122-4
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Do short range correlations inhibit the appearance of the nuclear pasta?
1
Depto de Física, CFM, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, CP. 476, CEP 88.040-900, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
2
Departamento de Física, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, DCTA, 12228-900, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
3
Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I Lyon, UMR 5822, 69622, Villeurbanne, France
Received:
29
March
2023
Accepted:
4
September
2023
Published online:
13
September
2023
It is well known that strongly correlated neutron–proton pairs, the short-range correlations (SRC), can modify many of the nuclear properties. In this work we have introduced, for the first time, short range correlations in the calculation of the nuclear pasta phase at zero temperature and checked how they affect its size and internal structure. We have used two different parameterizations of relativistic models in a mean field approximation and the coexistence phase approximation as a first estimation of the effects. We have seen that for very asymmetric neutron-proton-electon matter, the pasta phase shrinks considerably as compared with the results without SRC and all internal structures vanish, except the simple spherically symmetric one, the droplets. Our results indicate a possible disappearance of these complicated structures as the temperature increases.
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