Experimental Nuclear Masses and the Ground State of Cold Dense Matter

Abstract

We study the consequences of recent progress in the experimental determination of masses of neutron rich nuclei for our knowledge of the ground state of cold dense matter. The most recent experimental data determine the ground state of cold dense matter up to $\rho \simeq 10^{11}\mathrm{g}\mathrm{c}{\mathrm{m}}^{-3}$. The composition and the equation of state of the ground state of matter, in this density interval, are calculated.

Comments: 15 pages in standard TeX in this file, 5 tables in standard LaTeX in a separate file and 4 figures in an attached uuencoded tar.Z file. Preprint number not available, Accepted for publication in Astron. Astrophys