Equation of state of nuclear matter from collective flows and stopping in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions

The equation of state (EOS) of isospin-asymmetric nuclear matter plays a crucial role in many different realms of modern physics, from nuclear structure and heavy-ion reaction dynamics to the modeling of compact stellar objects. The author presents an in-depth comparison of calculations based on an improved transport model with heavy-ion collision data at intermediate energies. Accurate constraints on several features of the nuclear effective interaction, namely nucleon effective masses, in-medium elastic nucleon-nucleon cross-sections, and EOS can be extracted. This study paves the way toward comprehensive analyses that combine constraints derived from various EOS-sensitive physical phenomena.