We review recent progress in the determination of the subsaturation density behavior of the nuclear symmetry energy from heavy‐ion collisions as well as the theoretical progress in probing the high density behavior of the symmetry energy in heavy‐ion reactions induced by future high energy radioactive beams. Implications of these results for the nuclear effective interactions are also discussed.

Topics
Heavy ion reactions, Nuclear interactions, Isospin, Heavy-ion collisions, Nuclear symmetry energy, Particle beams
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© 2008 American Institute of Physics.
2008
American Institute of Physics
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