THERMAL-PROPERTIES OF NUCLEAR AND NEUTRON MATTER WITH MYERS-SWIATECKIPOTENTIAL

The Thomas-Fermi model is used to calculate the equation of state (EOS ) for nuclear as well as neutron matter. We apply the effective nucleo n-nucleon interaction of Myers and Swiatecki which is velocity and den sity dependent. The calculations cover a wide density range of interes t in heavy-ion collisions and astrophysics. We explore the thermodynam ical behaviour of symmetric nuclear matter and neutron matter at finit e temperature as it results from our EOS. As an illustration, the maxi mum stable mass of neutron star is calculated.