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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

The uncertainties in neutron star (NS) radii and crust properties due to our limited knowledge of the equation of state (EOS) are quantitatively analysed. We first demonstrate the importance of a unified microscopic description for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 M. Fortin , C. Providencia , A. R. Raduta , F. Gulminelli , J. L Zdunik , P. Haensel , M. Bejger

We calculate static properties of non-rotating neutron stars (NS's) using a microscopic equation of state (EOS) for asymmetric nuclear matter. The EOS is computed in the framework of the Brueckner--Bethe--Goldstone many--body theory. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Baldo , G. F. Burgio , I. Bombaci

An equation of state(EOS) of nuclear matter with explicit inclusion of a spin-isospin dependent force is constructed from a finite range, momentum and density dependent effective interaction. This EOS is found to be in good agreement with…

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

A statistical model for the equation of state (EOS) and the composition of supernova matter is presented with focus on the liquid-gas phase transition of nuclear matter. It consists of an ensemble of nuclei and interacting nucleons in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-11-27 Matthias Hempel , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

Accurately understanding the equation of state (EOS) of high-density, zero-temperature quark matter plays an essential role in constraining the behavior of dense strongly interacting matter inside the cores of neutron stars. In this Letter,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-14 Tyler Gorda , Risto Paatelainen , Saga Säppi , Kaapo Seppänen

We construct tables of finite temperature equation of state (EoS) of hypernuclear matter in the range of densities, temperatures, and electron fractions that are needed for numerical simulations of supernovas, proto-neutron stars, and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-24 Stefanos Tsiopelas , Armen Sedrakian , Micaela Oertel

We investigate the Equation of State (EOS) of classical systems having 300 and 512 particles confined in a box with periodic boundary conditions. We show that such a system, independently on the number of particles investigated, has a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 P. Finocchiaro , M. Belkacem , T. Kubo , V. Latora , A. Bonasera

We calculate the equation of state (EoS) of dense matter, using a relativistic mean field (RMF) model with a density dependent coupling that is a slightly modified form of the original NL3 interaction. For nonuniform nuclear matter we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 G. Shen , C. J. Horowitz , S. Teige

Constraining the equation of state (EOS) of strongly interacting, dense matter is the focus of intense experimental, observational, and theoretical effort. Chiral effective field theory ($\chi$EFT) can describe the EOS between the typical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-01 A. C. Semposki , C. Drischler , R. J. Furnstahl , J. A. Melendez , D. R. Phillips

Whether or not deconfined quark phase exists in neutron star cores and represents the ground state of neutral matter at moderate densities are open questions. We use two realistic effective quark models, the three-flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chang-Qun Ma , Chun-Yuan Gao

Finite-temperature equation of state (EoS) and the composition of dense nuclear and hypernuclear matter under conditions characteristic of neutron star binary merger remnants and supernovas are discussed. We consider both neutrino…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-10-18 Armen Sedrakian , Arus Harutyunyan

We investigate the impact of a critical end point (CEP) on the experimentally accessible baryon number fluctuations of different orders. By now, its potential location has been constrained fairly accurately within first principles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-03 Wei-jie Fu , Xiaofeng Luo , Jan M. Pawlowski , Fabian Rennecke , Shi Yin

In astrophysics as well as in hadron physics progress has recently been made on the determination of the hadronic equation of state (EOS) of compressed matter. The results are contradictory, however. Simulations of heavy ion reactions are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Ch. Hartnack , H. Oeschler , Jörg Aichelin

The transition to quark matter can take place in neutron stars. The structure of a hybrid star, containing a core made of quark matter is discussed. The maximum mass of the non-rotating hybrid star turns out to be 1.6 M_s. Possible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alessandro Drago

We study equation of state (EOS) of an accreting neutron star crust. Usually, such EOS is obtained assuming (implicitly) that the free (unbound) neutrons and nuclei in the inner crust move together. We argue, that this assumption violates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-20 Mikhail E. Gusakov , Andrey I. Chugunov

Matter state inside neutron stars is an exciting problem in astrophysics, nuclear physics and particle physics. The equation of state (EOS) of neutron stars plays a crucial role in the present multimessenger astronomy, especially after the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-07 Zhen-Yu Zhu , En-Ping Zhou , Ang Li

The first detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star-neutron star merger, GW170817, has opened up a new avenue for constraining the ultradense-matter equation of state (EOS). The deviation of the observed waveform from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 Carolyn A. Raithel

Properties and structure of neutron stars are determined by the equation of state (EOS) of neutron-rich stellar matter. While the collective flow and particle production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions have constrained tightly the EOS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-22 Aaron Worley , Plamen G. Krastev , Bao-An Li

Equation of state (EOS) of pure neutron matter (PNM) is studied in QCD sum rules (QCDSR). It is found that the QCDSR results on EOS of PNM are in good agreement with predictions by current advanced microscopic many-body theories. Moreover,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-05-30 Bao-Jun Cai , Lie-Wen Chen