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Impact of NICER's Radius Measurement of PSR J0740+6620 on Nuclear Symmetry Energy at Suprasaturation Densities

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arxiv 2105.11031 v2 pith:I2X2ZJBJ submitted 2021-05-23 nucl-th astro-ph.HEnucl-ex

Impact of NICER's Radius Measurement of PSR J0740+6620 on Nuclear Symmetry Energy at Suprasaturation Densities

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By directly inverting several neutron star observables in the three-dimensional parameter space for the Equation of State of super-dense neutron-rich nuclear matter, we show that the lower radius limit for PSR J0740+6620 of mass $2.08\pm 0.07~M_{\odot}$ from Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER)'s very recent observation sets a much tighter lower boundary than previously known for nuclear symmetry energy in the density range of $(1.0\sim 3.0)$ times the saturation density $\rho_0$ of nuclear matter. The super-soft symmetry energy leading to the formation of proton polarons in this density region of neutron stars is clearly disfavoured by the first radius measurement for the most massive neutron star observed reliably so far.

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