“…Inside a strongly interacting medium as in the description of nuclear matter, the momentum dependence of symmetry potential may lead to different values of the neutron/proton effective masses. The knowledge of the difference, also known as the nucleon effective mass splitting, is important for understanding not only level density of single particles, isovector Giant Dipole Resonance in nuclear structures and spectra of emitted particles in nuclear reactions but also many critical issues in astrophysics, such as heat capacity of matter, the neutron and proton chemical potential and their fraction [29,30,2,31,32,33,34,35,36,37]. There have been some efforts on constraining the nucleon effective mass splitting by analyzing the symmetry potenial U sym (ρ 0 , E) using nuclei optical potential data [2,33,38].…”