Gravitational waves emitted from the coalescence of neutron star binaries open a new
window to probe matter and fundamental physics in unexplored, extreme regimes. To extract …

We review the current state of research on electromagnetic probes in the context of heavy-
ion collisions. The focus is on thermal photons and dileptons which provide unique insights …

We investigate the possibility that GW170817 was not the merger of two conventional
neutron stars (NS), but involved at least one if not two hybrid stars with a quark matter core …

The thermodynamic properties of high temperature and high density QCD matter are
explored within the chiral SU (3)-flavor parity-doublet Polyakov-loop quark-hadron mean …

We study the effect of the isovector-scalar meson a 0 (980) on the properties of nuclear
matter and the neutron star (NS) matter by constructing a parity doublet model with including …

I make two comments about nuclear matter. First, I consider the effects of a coupling
between the O (4) chiral field, ϕ→, and the ω μ meson,∼+ ϕ→ 2 ω μ 2; for any net baryon …

We present a phenomenological model to investigate the chiral phase transition
characterized by parity doubling in dense, beta equilibrated, cold matter. Our model …

We analyze the effects of chiral symmetry restoration in hadronic matter, including the lowest-
lying baryonic resonance Δ based on the parity doublet model. We study the role of Δ and its …

In the first part of this paper, we use a nonlocal extension of the three-flavor Polyakov-
Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model, which takes into account flavor-mixing, momentum dependent …

Nonperturbative equations of state (EoSs) for two and three quark flavors are constructed
with the functional renormalization group (FRG) within a quark-meson model truncation …