Symmetry energy in the structure and in reactions

Abstract

Efforts to extract information on magnitude and density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy are discussed. The utilized data include those on mass dependence of the excitation energies to the isobaric analog states of ground states, as well as data on the diffusion of isospin in heavy-ion reactions. Results following from different observables are compared.

14 pages, 8 figures; contribution to IWM2009, International Workshop on Multifragmentation and Related Topics, Catania, 2009