Short-range tensor interaction and high-density nuclear symmetry energy
Department of Physics and Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China(Dated: July 5, 2011)Effects of the short-range tensor interaction on the density-dependence of nuclear symmetry energy are ex-amined by applying an approximate expression for the second-order tensor contribution to the symmetry energyderived earlier by G.E. Brown and R. Machleidt. It is found that the uncertainty in the short-range tensor forceleads directly to a divergent high-density behavior of the nuclear symmetry energy.