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Sensitivity of neutron star observables to microscopic nuclear parameters of realistic equations of state

Nikolas Cruz-Camacho, Carlos Conde-Ocazionez, Veronica Dexheimer, Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler, and Nicolás Yunes

Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 22 September, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/mq86-b587

Abstract

The equation of state of matter at supranuclear densities governs the astrophysical observables of neutron stars. A realistic, though complex, description is provided by the Chiral-Mean-Field model, which depends on many microscopic nuclear-physics parameters. We present a Fisher-information-inspired analysis of the sensitivity of neutron-star observables to the parameters of the Chiral-Mean-Field model for cold, charge-neutral, β-equilibrated neutron-proton-electron matter connected to a SLy crust. We then compute neutron-star sequences and extract masses, radii, compactnesses, and tidal deformabilities. From the logarithmic derivatives of these observables with respect to each nuclear parameter, we construct a dimensionless, Fisher-inspired sensitivity matrix and perform a principal-component analysis to identify the effective combinations of nuclear parameters that most strongly affect neutron-star observables. Although the ranking depends mildly on the observable, the three most important nuclear parameters are the vacuum value of the dilaton field χ0 (which sets the overall scale of the scalar potential and trace-anomaly contribution), the scalar singlet strength g1X (which controls the overall scalar attraction through the baryon effective masses), and the k0 quadratic scalar term (which governs the curvature of the scalar potential). This dimensional reduction should be understood as a local active-subspace statement around the fiducial CMF C4 parametrization, rather than as a global restriction on the EoS flexibility of the CMF framework. Nevertheless, it provides a reproducible, data-driven approach to quantify parameter sensitivities in dense-matter models and to guide future Bayesian inference of nuclear information from multi-messenger astrophysical observations.

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