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 …

Constraints on the dense matter equation of state and neutron star properties from NICER's mass–radius estimate of PSR J0740+ 6620 and multimessenger …

G Raaijmakers, SK Greif, K Hebeler… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In recent years our understanding of the dense matter equation of state (EOS) of neutron
stars has significantly improved by analyzing multimessenger data from radio/X-ray pulsars …

Ab initio predictions link the neutron skin of 208Pb to nuclear forces

B Hu, W Jiang, T Miyagi, Z Sun, A Ekström, C Forssén… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Heavy atomic nuclei have an excess of neutrons over protons, which leads to the formation
of a neutron skin whose thickness is sensitive to details of the nuclear force. This links …

Nuclear effective field theory: status and perspectives

HW Hammer, S König, U Van Kolck - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
The nuclear-physics landscape has been redesigned as a sequence of effective field
theories (EFTs) connected to the standard model through symmetries and lattice simulations …

Strongly interacting matter exhibits deconfined behavior in massive neutron stars

E Annala, T Gorda, J Hirvonen, O Komoltsev… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Neutron-star cores contain matter at the highest densities in our Universe. This highly
compressed matter may undergo a phase transition where nuclear matter melts into …

A Guided Tour of ab initio Nuclear Many-Body Theory

H Hergert - Frontiers in Physics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Over the last decade, new developments in Similarity Renormalization Group techniques
and nuclear many-body methods have dramatically increased the capabilities of ab initio …

How perturbative QCD constrains the equation of state at neutron-star densities

O Komoltsev, A Kurkela - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We demonstrate in a general and analytic way how high-density information about the
equation of state (EOS) of strongly interacting matter obtained using perturbative quantum …

Astrophysical Constraints on the Symmetry Energy and the Neutron Skin of with Minimal Modeling Assumptions

R Essick, I Tews, P Landry, A Schwenk - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
The symmetry energy and its density dependence are crucial inputs for many nuclear
physics and astrophysics applications, as they determine properties ranging from the …

Neutron-star tidal deformability and equation-of-state constraints

K Chatziioannou - General Relativity and Gravitation, 2020 - Springer
Despite their long history and astrophysical importance, some of the key properties of
neutron stars are still uncertain. The extreme conditions encountered in their interiors …