Dense nuclear matter equation of state from heavy-ion collisions

A Sorensen, K Agarwal, KW Brown, Z Chajęcki… - Progress in Particle and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The nuclear equation of state (EOS) is at the center of numerous theoretical and
experimental efforts in nuclear physics. With advances in microscopic theories for nuclear …

Neutron stars and the nuclear matter equation of state

JM Lattimer - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Neutron stars provide a window into the properties of dense nuclear matter. Several recent
observational and theoretical developments provide powerful constraints on their structure …

A NICER view of the massive pulsar PSR J0740+ 6620 informed by radio timing and XMM-Newton spectroscopy

TE Riley, AL Watts, PS Ray, S Bogdanov… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on Bayesian estimation of the radius, mass, and hot surface regions of the
massive millisecond pulsar PSR J0740+ 6620, conditional on pulse-profile modeling of …

On the sound speed in neutron stars

S Altiparmak, C Ecker, L Rezzolla - The astrophysical journal …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Determining the sound speed cs in compact stars is an important open question with
numerous implications on the behavior of matter at large densities and hence on …

Impact of the PSR radius constraint on the properties of high-density matter

I Legred, K Chatziioannou, R Essick, S Han, P Landry - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
X-ray pulse profile modeling of PSR J 0740+ 6620, the most massive known pulsar, with
data from the NICER and XMM-Newton observatories recently led to a measurement of its …

Nonparametric constraints on neutron star matter with existing and upcoming gravitational wave and pulsar observations

P Landry, R Essick, K Chatziioannou - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
Observations of neutron stars, whether in binaries or in isolation, provide information about
the internal structure of the most extreme material objects in the Universe. In this work, we …

Trace anomaly as signature of conformality in neutron stars

Y Fujimoto, K Fukushima, LD McLerran… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We discuss an interpretation that a peak in the sound velocity in neutron star matter, as
suggested by the observational data, signifies strongly coupled conformal matter. The …

Merger and postmerger of binary neutron stars with a quark-hadron crossover equation of state

YJ Huang, L Baiotti, T Kojo, K Takami, H Sotani… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Fully general-relativistic binary-neutron-star (BNS) merger simulations with quark-hadron
crossover (QHC) equations of state (EOS) are studied for the first time. In contrast to EOS …

Limiting masses and radii of neutron stars and their implications

C Drischler, S Han, JM Lattimer, M Prakash, S Reddy… - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
We combine the equation of state of dense matter up to twice nuclear saturation density n
sat obtained using chiral effective field theory (χ EFT) and recent observations of neutron …

Neutron Star Equation of State in light of GW190814

H Tan, J Noronha-Hostler, N Yunes - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
The observation of gravitational waves from an asymmetric binary opens the possibility for
heavy neutron stars, but these pose challenges to models of the neutron star equation of …