Symmetry Energy

Abstract

Examination of symmetry energy is carried out on the basis of an elementary binding-energy formula. Constraints are obtained on the energy value at the normal nuclear density and on the density dependence of the energy at subnormal densities.

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures; talk given at the 3rd Argonne/MSU/INT/JINA RIA Theory Workshop, Argonne, April 4-7, 2006