While substantial progress has been achieved in constraining the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy at and around the saturation density, with a wide range of experiments in recent years, this is not the case at supra-normal density. There have been contradictory results on the strength of the symmetry energy at high density using older data taken at GSI. In this talk, I will review current experimental constraints on the symmetry energy from heavy-ion collisions at energies above 100 MeV per nucleon. I will also discuss the status of the SAMURAI TPC, which is a time-projection chamber to be used in conjunction with the SAMURAI spectrometer at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Facility (RIBF) at RIKEN, Japan. It is designed to detect charged pions, as well as light charged particles up to oxygen, produced in heavy-ion collisions.

Constraining the nuclear symmetry energy at high density

246th National Meeting (2013)

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