Equations of state for supernovae and compact stars

M Oertel, M Hempel, T Klähn, S Typel - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
A review is given of various theoretical approaches for the equation of state (EoS) of dense
matter, relevant for the description of core-collapse supernovae, compact stars, and compact …

Nucleon effective masses in neutron-rich matter

BA Li, BJ Cai, LW Chen, J Xu - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2018 - Elsevier
Various kinds of isovector nucleon effective masses are used in the literature to characterize
the momentum/energy dependence of the nucleon symmetry potential or self-energy due to …

Precision Determination of the Neutral Weak Form Factor of

D Adhikari, H Albataineh, D Androic, KA Aniol… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
We report a precise measurement of the parity-violating (PV) asymmetry A PV in the elastic
scattering of longitudinally polarized electrons from Ca 48. We measure A PV= 2668±106 …

Accurate Determination of the Neutron Skin Thickness of through Parity-Violation in Electron Scattering

D Adhikari, H Albataineh, D Androic, K Aniol… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
We report a precision measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry A PV in the elastic
scattering of longitudinally polarized electrons from Pb 208. We measure A PV= 550±16 …

Evidence for quark-matter cores in massive neutron stars

E Annala, T Gorda, A Kurkela, J Nättilä, A Vuorinen - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
The theory governing the strong nuclear force—quantum chromodynamics—predicts that at
sufficiently high energy densities, hadronic nuclear matter undergoes a deconfinement …

Neutron skins and neutron stars in the multimessenger era

FJ Fattoyev, J Piekarewicz, CJ Horowitz - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
The historical first detection of a binary neutron star merger by the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration
[BP Abbott et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 161101 (2017) PRLTAO 0031-9007 …

GW190814: Impact of a 2.6 solar mass neutron star on the nucleonic equations of state

FJ Fattoyev, CJ Horowitz, J Piekarewicz, B Reed - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
Is the secondary component of GW190814 the lightest black hole or the heaviest neutron
star ever discovered in a double compact-object system [Abbott et al. Astrophys. J. 896, L44 …

Core-collapse supernova equations of state based on neutron star observations

AW Steiner, M Hempel, T Fischer - The Astrophysical Journal, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Many of the currently available equations of state for core-collapse supernova simulations
give large neutron star radii and do not provide large enough neutron star masses, both of …

Relativistic mean-field hadronic models under nuclear matter constraints

M Dutra, O Lourenço, SS Avancini, BV Carlson… - Physical Review C, 2014 - APS
Background: The microscopic composition and properties of infinite hadronic matter at a
wide range of densities and temperatures have been subjects of intense investigation for …

Projecting the likely importance of weak-interaction-driven bulk viscosity in neutron star mergers

ER Most, SP Harris, C Plumberg… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In this work, we estimate how much bulk viscosity driven by Urca processes is likely to affect
the gravitational wave signal of a neutron star coalescence. In the late inspiral, we show that …