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A deeper understanding of QCD matter at strong coupling remains challenging due to its non-perturbative nature. To this end, we study a two-flavor holographic hard-wall model to investigate the properties of QCD at finite-density and zero…

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We perform a physics-informed Bayesian analyses of the equation of state of hybrid neutron stars that incorporates color-flavor-locked quark matter modeled by a three-flavor non-local Nambu-Jona-Lasinio framework with vector repulsion and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Alexander Ayriyan , Oleksii Ivanytskyi , David Blaschke

We propose a microscopic simulation for quark many-body system based on molecular dynamics. Using color confinement and one-gluon exchange potentials together with the meson exchange potentials between quarks, we construct nucleons and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Toshiki Maruyama , Tetsuo Hatsuda

We present a novel framework for the equation of state of dense and hot Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), which focuses on the region of the phase diagram relevant for neutron star mergers and core-collapse supernovae. The model combines…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-09 Tuna Demircik , Christian Ecker , Matti Järvinen

Recent years continue to be an exciting time for the neutron star physics, providing many new observations and insights to these natural laboratories of cold dense matter. To describe them, there are many models on the market but still none…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Sofija Antic , Jirina R. Stone , Anthony W. Thomas

We study the impact of a hadron-quark phase transition on the maximum neutron-star mass. The hadronic part of the equation of state relies on the most up-to-date Skyrme nuclear energy density functionals, fitted to essentially all…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-26 N. Chamel , A. F. Fantina , J. M. Pearson , S. Goriely

Ab initio methods using weakly interacting nucleons give a good description of condensed nuclear matter up to densities comparable to the nuclear saturation density. At higher densities palpable strong interactions between overlapping…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-14 Niko Jokela , Matti Jarvinen , Govert Nijs , Jere Remes

In this letter, we report a new phenomena of recurring regions when relating observables for hybrid neutron stars and hybrid neutron-star mergers. To describe dense matter within hybrid stars, we introduce a percolation to vary the size and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-02 Alexander Clevinger , Zidu Lin , Milena Albino , Peter Hammond , Veronica Dexheimer , Andrew Steiner

In this contribution, we describe new chemically-equilibrated charge-neutral hybrid equations of state for neutron stars. They present a first-order phase transition to quark matter and differentiate by the particle population considered…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-08 A. Clevinger , J. Corkish , K. Aryal , V. Dexheimer

Using a self-consistent quark model for nuclear matter we investigate variations of the masses of the non-strange vector mesons, the hyperons and the nucleon in dense nuclear matter (up to four times the normal nuclear density). We find…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Saito , A. W. Thomas

Equation of state of dense nuclear matter is explored in the KIDS density functional theory. Parameters of the equation of state which are coefficients of the energy density expanded in powers of $(\rho - \rho_0)/3\rho_0$ where $\rho$ is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-03 Hana Gil , Chang Ho Hyun

The density in the core of neutron stars can reach values of about 5 to 10 times nuclear matter saturation density. It is, therefore, a natural assumption that hadrons may have dissolved into quarks under such conditions, forming a hybrid…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 S. Schramm , V. Dexheimer , R. Negreiros

We construct a new class of phenomenological equations of state for homogeneous matter for use in simulations of hot and dense matter in local thermodynamic equilibrium. We construct a functional form which respects experimental,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Xingfu Du , Andrew W. Steiner , Jeremy W. Holt

We present a novel method for revealing the equation of state of high-density neutron star matter through gravitational waves emitted during the postmerger phase of a binary neutron star system. The method relies on a small number of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Bauswein , N. Stergioulas , H. -T. Janka

The low density nuclear matter equation of state is strongly constrained by nuclear properties, however, for constraining the high density equation of state it is necessary to resort to indirect information obtained from the observation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-10-04 Márcio Ferreira , Constança Providência

The recent discovery of binary neutron star mergers has opened a new and exciting venue of research into hot and dense strongly interacting matter. For the first time this elusive state of matter, described by the theory of quantum chromo…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-06-24 Anton Motornenko , Jan Steinheimer , Horst Stoecker

Phase transition from hadronic matter to quark-gluon matter is discussed for various regimes of temperature and baryon number density. For small and medium densities, the phase transition is accurately described in the framework of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-05 M. I. Krivoruchenko , D. K. Nadyozhin , T. L. Rasinkova , Yu. A. Simonov , M. A. Trusov , A. V. Yudin

The dense matter equation of state is of great interest due to the recent development of astrophysical observations for neutron stars. A rapid increase in pressure indicates a continuous crossover from a hadron phase to a quark phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Hiroyuki Tajima , Kei Iida , Toru Kojo , Haozhao Liang

The possibility of formation of a droplet phase (DP) inside a star and its consequences on the structural properties of the star are investigated. For nuclear matter (NM), an equation of state (EOS) based on finite range, momentum and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 V. S. Uma Maheswari , J. N. De , S. K. Samaddar

We explore the role of color superconductivity in quarkyonic matter under the conditions of color and electric neutrality at $\beta$- and strong equilibrium, as relevant for neutron stars. By explicitly incorporating the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Christoph Gärtlein , Oleksii Ivanytskyi , Violetta Sagun , Ilídio Lopes