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The transport property of cold and dense nucleon matter is important for nuclear physics but is relatively less studied than that at finite temperatures. In this paper, we present a primary study of bulk and shear viscosities in the limit…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-09 Jianing Li , Weiyao Ke

We study the transport coefficients from the QCD Kondo effect in quark matter which contains heavy quarks as impurity particles. We estimate the coupling constant of the interaction between a light quark and a heavy quark at finite density…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-03 Shigehiro Yasui , Sho Ozaki

Gravitational waves and electromagnetic signals from merging neutron star binaries provide valuable information about the the properties of dense matter, the formation of heavy elements, and high-energy astrophysics. To fully leverage…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-23 Francois Foucart , Matthew D. Duez , Francois Hebert , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

Dissipative features of dark matter affect its clustering properties and could lead to observable consequences for the evolution of large--scale structure. We analyse the evolution of cold dark matter density perturbations allowing for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-21 Giovanni Acquaviva , Anslyn John , Aurélie Pénin

Understanding signals from neutron stars requires knowledge about the transport inside the star. We review the transport properties and the underlying reaction rates of dense hadronic and quark matter in the crust and the core of neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-06 Andreas Schmitt , Peter Shternin

We study the ratio of bulk to shear viscosity in gluodynamics within a phenomenological quasiparticle model. We show that at large temperatures this ratio exhibits a quadratic dependence on the conformality measure as known from weak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Bluhm , B. Kampfer , K. Redlich

The transport properties of quantum dot (QD) systems based on double-walled carbon nanotube (DWCNT) are investigated. The interplay between microscopic structure and strong Coulomb interaction is treated within a bosonization framework. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shidong Wang , Milena Grifoni

We consider transport properties of the hypernuclear matter in neutron star cores. In particular, we calculate the thermal conductivity, the shear viscosity, and the momentum transfer rates for np$\Sigma^{-}\Lambda e\mu$ composition of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-24 Peter Shternin , Isaac Vidaña

The main focus of this article is to obtain various transport coefficients for a hot QCD medium that is produced while colliding two heavy nuclei ultra-relativistically. As the hot QCD medium follows dissipative hydrodynamics while…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-15 Sukanya Mitra , Vinod Chandra

We discuss cold dense QCD by examining constraints from neutron stars, nuclear experiments, and QCD calculations at low and high baryon density. The two solar mass constraint and suggestive small radii (10~13 km) of neutron stars constrain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-28 Toru Kojo

The recent detection of gravitational waves from merging neutron star events has opened a new window on the many unknown aspects of their internal dynamics. A key role in this context is played by the transition from baryon to quark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-08 Abha Rajan , Tyler Gorda , Simonetta Liuti , Kent Yagi

We use numerical relativity simulations of binary neutron star mergers to show that high density deconfinement phase transitions (PTs) to quark matter can be probed using multimodal postmerger gravitational wave (GW) spectroscopy.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-13 Pedro Luis Espino , Aviral Prakash , David Radice , Domenico Logoteta

We study the bulk viscosity of moderately hot and dense, neutrino-transparent color superconducting quark matter arising from weak-interaction-driven direct URCA processes. The quark matter is modeled using the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-16 Mark Alford , Arus Harutyunyan , Armen Sedrakian , Stefanos Tsiopelas

Transport properties play a crucial role in defining materials as insulators, metals, or superconductors. A fundamental parameter in this regard is the Drude weight, which quantify the ballistic transport of charge carriers. In this work,…

The heavy quark drag and momentum diffusion coefficients in the presence of both the collisional and radiative processes have been studied in a hot viscous QCD medium. The thermal medium effects are incorporated by employing the effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-18 Adiba Shaikh , Manu Kurian , Santosh K. Das , Vinod Chandra , Sadhana Dash , Basanta K. Nandi

The study of neutron stars, or more general compact stars, is a topic of central interest in nuclear astrophysics. Furthermore, neutron stars serve as the only physical systems whose properties can be used to infer information on cold and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-19 S. Schramm , V. Dexheimer , R. Negreiros , T. Schürhoff , J. Steinheimer

The existence of quark matter inside the cores of heavy neutron stars is a possibility which can be probed with modern astrophysical observations. We use an (axial)vector meson extended quark-meson model to describe quark matter in the core…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-05-25 Péter Kovács , János Takátsy , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich , György Wolf

This paper investigates the properties of strongly coupled matter at high baryon densities (\(\rho_B\)) in quark stars (QSs). The QS model is based on the density-dependent quark mass (DDQM) framework, modified (MDDQM) by enhancing the…

We review the equation of state of matter in neutron stars from the solid crust through the liquid nuclear matter interior to the quark regime at higher densities. We focus in detail on the question of how quark matter appears in neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-06 Gordon Baym , Tetsuo Hatsuda , Toru Kojo , Philip D. Powell , Yifan Song , Tatsuyuki Takatsuka

According to quantum chromodynamics, matter at ultra-high density and low temperature is a quark liquid, with a condensate of Cooper pairs of quarks near the Fermi surface ("color superconductivity"). This paper reviews the physics of color…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-18 Mark G. Alford