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We study neutron matter by combining pionless effective field theory with non-perturbative lattice methods. The neutron contact interaction is determined by zero temperature scattering data. We simulate neutron matter on the lattice at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Dean Lee , Thomas Schaefer

Neutrons stars are unique laboratories to discriminate between the various proposed equations of state of matter at and above nuclear density. One sub-class of neutron stars - those inside quiescent low-mass X-ray binaries (qLMXBs) -…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Sebastien Guillot , Robert E. Rutledge

Neutron stars provide a unique laboratory for studying matter at extreme pressures and densities. While there is no direct way to explore their interior structure, X-rays emitted from these stars can indirectly provide clues to the equation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 Delaney Farrell , Pierre Baldi , Jordan Ott , Aishik Ghosh , Andrew W. Steiner , Atharva Kavitkar , Lee Lindblom , Daniel Whiteson , Fridolin Weber

A number of properties of dense matter can be understood semiquantitatively in terms of simple physical arguments. We begin with the outer parts of neutron stars, and consider the density at which pressure ionization occurs, the density at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 C. J. Pethick

The nuclear matter equation of state is relatively well constrained at sub-saturation densities thanks to the knowledge from nuclear physics. However, studying its behavior at supra-saturation densities is a challenging task. Fortunately,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-02-17 Hoa Dinh Thi , Chiranjib Mondal , Francesca Gulminelli

A precise understanding of the equation of state (EOS) of dense and hot matter is key to modeling relativistic astrophysical environments, including core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe), protoneutron star (PNSs) evolution, and compact binary…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-08 Domenico Logoteta , Albino Perego , Ignazio Bombaci

The Equation of State (EOS) of matter within neutron stars is a central topic in nuclear physics and astrophysics.This study investigates hadron-quark hybrid stars by integrating the density-dependent DDME2 relativistic mean-field model for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-20 Chunran Zhu , Bolin Li

The oscillation spectrum of a neutron star is notably rich and intrinsically dependent on the equation of state of nuclear matter. With recent advancements in gravitational-wave and electromagnetic astronomy, we are nearing the capability…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-06 Fabian Gittins , Nils Andersson

We investigate properties of nuclear matter, equation of state (EOS) of neutron stars and its mass-radius relation in a hard-wall AdS/QCD model by regarding baryons as solitonic configurations in gauge fields. Compared with previous…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-07 Jun-Shuai Wang , Li-Kang Yang , Yin-Fang Liu , Yong-Liang Ma

We present three-dimensional simulations of the dynamics of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers from the late stage of the inspiral process up to $\sim 20$ ms after the system has merged, either to form a hyper-massive neutron star (NS) or a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 Roberto De Pietri , Alessandra Feo , Francesco Maione , Frank Löffler

Neutron star properties depend on both nuclear physics and astrophysical processes, and thus observations of neutron stars offer constraints on both large-scale astrophysics and the behavior of cold, dense matter. In this study, we use…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-29 Jacob Golomb , Isaac Legred , Katerina Chatziioannou , Philippe Landry

The FSU2H equation-of-state model, originally developed to describe cold neutron star matter with hyperonic cores, is extended to finite temperature. Results are presented for a wide range of temperatures and lepton fractions, which cover…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-04 Hristijan Kochankovski , Angels Ramos , Laura Tolos

We add an ensemble of nuclei to the equation of state for homogeneous nucleonic matter to generate a new set of models suitable for astrophysical simulations of core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. We implement empirical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-16 Xingfu Du , Andrew W. Steiner , Jeremy W. Holt

The equation of state (EoS) of neutron matter plays a decisive role in our understanding of the properties of neutron stars as well as the generation of gravitational waves in neutron star mergers. At sufficient densities, it is known that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-24 Hui Tong , Serdar Elhatisari , Ulf-G. Meißner

Binary neutron star mergers probe the dense-matter equation of state (EoS) across a wide range of densities and temperatures, from the cold conditions of the inspiral to the high-temperature matter of the massive neutron star remnant. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-26 Carolyn A. Raithel , Vasileios Paschalidis

We study nuclear and neutron matter by combining chiral effective field theory with non-perturbative lattice methods. In our approach nucleons and pions are treated as point particles on a lattice. This allows us to probe larger volumes,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Dean Lee , Bugra Borasoy , Thomas Schaefer

Neutron star is the ultimate testing place for the physics of dense nuclear matter. Before the detection of gravitational waves from the merger of binary neutron stars, various nuclear equations of state have been used to estimate the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-06-03 Young-Min Kim , Kyujin Kwak , Chang Ho Hyun , Hana Gil , Chang-Hwan Lee

We adopt two- and three-body nuclear forces derived at the next-to-next-to-leading-order (N2LO) in the framework of effective chiral perturbation theory (ChPT) to calculate the equation of state (EOS) of $\beta$-stable neutron star matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-27 Domenico Logoteta , Ignazio Bombaci

We explore supervised machine learning methods in extracting the non-linear maps between neutron stars (NS) observables and the equation of state (EoS) of nuclear matter. Using a Taylor expansion around saturation density, we have generated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-22 Márcio Ferreira , Constança Providência

Significance of the chiral symmetry restoration is studied by considering the role of the modification of the nucleon mass in nuclear medium at finite density and temperature. Using the Korea-IBS-Daegu-SKKU density functional theory, we can…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-19 Hajime Togashi , Debashree Sen , Hana Gil , Chang Ho Hyun