Neutron stars and the nuclear equation of state

GF Burgio, HJ Schulze, I Vidaña, JB Wei - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
We review the current status and recent progress of microscopic many-body approaches
and phenomenological models, which are employed to construct the equation of state of …

Three-nucleon forces: Implementation and applications to atomic nuclei and dense matter

K Hebeler - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent advances in nuclear structure theory have significantly enlarged the accessible part
of the nuclear landscape via ab initio many-body calculations. These developments open …

How well do we know the neutron-matter equation of state at the densities inside neutron stars? A Bayesian approach with correlated uncertainties

C Drischler, RJ Furnstahl, JA Melendez, DR Phillips - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We introduce a new framework for quantifying correlated uncertainties of the infinite-matter
equation of state derived from chiral effective field theory (χ EFT). Bayesian machine …

High-quality two-nucleon potentials up to fifth order of the chiral expansion

DR Entem, R Machleidt, Y Nosyk - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
We present NN potentials through five orders of chiral effective field theory ranging from
leading order (LO) to next-to-next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N 4 LO). The construction …

Accurate nuclear radii and binding energies from a chiral interaction

A Ekström, GR Jansen, KA Wendt, G Hagen… - Physical Review C, 2015 - APS
With the goal of develo** predictive ab initio capability for light and medium-mass nuclei,
two-nucleon and three-nucleon forces from chiral effective field theory are optimized …

Chiral interactions up to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order and nuclear saturation

C Drischler, K Hebeler, A Schwenk - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
We present an efficient Monte Carlo framework for perturbative calculations of infinite
nuclear matter based on chiral two-, three-, and four-nucleon interactions. The method …

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 tidal deformabilities constrained by nuclear theory and experiment

Y Lim, JW Holt - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
We confront observational data from gravitational wave event GW170817 with microscopic
modeling of the cold neutron star equation of state. We develop and employ a Bayesian …

Saturation with chiral interactions and consequences for finite nuclei

J Simonis, SR Stroberg, K Hebeler, JD Holt, A Schwenk - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
We explore the impact of nuclear matter saturation on the properties and systematics of finite
nuclei across the nuclear chart. By using the ab initio in-medium similarity renormalization …

Quantifying uncertainties and correlations in the nuclear-matter equation of state

C Drischler, JA Melendez, RJ Furnstahl, DR Phillips - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
We perform statistically rigorous uncertainty quantification (UQ) for chiral effective field
theory (χ EFT) applied to infinite nuclear matter up to twice nuclear saturation density. The …