SAMURAI International Collaboration Workshop 2017

The density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy governs important aspects of very neutron rich systems such as heavy nuclei and neutron stars. Many observables and experiments have been employed to probe the symmetry energy in regions below saturation density and constraints are emerging. At RIKEN, the SπRIT TPC and SAMURAI collaborations have completed a first campaign to extend these constraints to supra-saturation densities. I will discuss some of the scientific ideas to be explored in future campaigns with this powerful new device. This work is supported by the U.S. DOE under Grant Nos. DE-SC0004835, DE-SC0014530, DENA0002923, US NSF Grant No. PHY-1565546, the Japanese MEXT KAKENHI grant No. 24105004.