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Parametric Neural Quantum States for Nuclear Physics
Yukari Yamauchi, Ryan Curry, Garrett B. King +3
We introduce a new approach, based on neural quantum states (NQSs), to rapidly compute nuclear observables when couplings in nuclear Hamiltonians are varied. A single interaction-d…
Connecting Relativistic Density Functional Theory to Microscopic Calculations
Brendan T. Reed, Matthias Heinz, Pierre Arthuis +2
The development of systematic effective field theories (EFTs) for nuclear forces and advances in solving the nuclear many-body problem have greatly improved our understanding of de…
Can Neutron Star Tidal Effects Obscure Deviations from General Relativity?
Stephanie M. Brown, Badri Krishnan, Rahul Somasundaram +1
One of the main goals of gravitational-wave astrophysics is to study gravity in the strong-field regime and constrain deviations from general relativity (GR). Any such deviation af…
Inferring three-nucleon couplings from multi-messenger neutron-star observations
Rahul Somasundaram, Isak Svensson, Soumi De +5
Understanding the interactions between nucleons in dense matter is an important challenge in theoretical physics. Effective field theories have emerged as the dominant approach to…
Perturbative treatment of nonlocal chiral interactions in auxiliary-field diffusion Monte Carlo calculations
Ryan Curry, Rahul Somasundaram, Stefano Gandolfi +2
Nuclear many-body systems, ranging from nuclei to neutron stars, are some of the most interesting physical phenomena in our universe, and Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) approaches are a…
Kilonova Emissions from Neutron Star Merger Remnants: Implications for Nuclear Equation of State
Kelsey A. Lund, Rahul Somasundaram, Gail C. McLaughlin +3
Multi-messenger observation of binary neutron-star mergers can provide valuable information on the nuclear equation of state (EoS). Here, we investigate to which extent electromagn…
Neutron stars and the dense matter equation of state: from microscopic theory to macroscopic observations
Katerina Chatziioannou, H. Thankful Cromartie, Stefano Gandolfi +4
The past years have witnessed tremendous progress in understanding the properties of neutron stars and of the dense matter in their cores, made possible by electromagnetic observat…
Probe and Prejudice: Classification of compact objects and model comparison using EOS knowledge
Hauke Koehn, Thibeau Wouters, Henrik Rose +4
Nuclear theory and experiments, alongside astrophysical observations, constrain the equation of state (EOS) of supranuclear-dense matter. Conversely, knowledge of the EOS allows an…
From existing and new nuclear and astrophysical constraints to stringent limits on the equation of state of neutron-rich dense matter
Hauke Koehn, Henrik Rose, Peter T. H. Pang +10
Through continuous progress in nuclear theory and experiment and an increasing number of neutron-star observations, a multitude of information about the equation of state (EOS) for…
Equation of state at neutron-star densities and beyond from perturbative QCD
Oleg Komoltsev, Rahul Somasundaram, Tyler Gorda +3
We explore the consequences of imposing robust thermodynamic constraints arising from perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) when inferring the dense-matter equation-of-state (E…
What can we learn about the unstable equation-of-state branch from neutron-star mergers?
Maximiliano Ujevic, Rahul Somasundaram, Tim Dietrich +2
The Equation of State (EOS) of dense strongly-interacting matter can be probed by astrophysical observations of neutron stars (NS), such as X-ray detections of pulsars or the measu…
Probing Quarkyonic Matter in Neutron Stars with the Bayesian Nuclear-Physics Multi-Messenger Astrophysics Framework
Peter T. H. Pang, Lars Sivertsen, Rahul Somasundaram +5
The interior of neutron stars contains matter at the highest densities realized in our Universe. Interestingly, theoretical studies of dense matter, in combination with the existen…
Tabulated Equations of State From Models Informed by Chiral Effective Field Theory
Mark G. Alford, Liam Brodie, Alexander Haber +1
We construct four equation of state (EoS) tables, tabulated over a range of temperatures, densities, and charge fractions, relevant for neutron star applications such as simulation…
Revealing the strength of three-nucleon interactions with the Einstein Telescope
Henrik Rose, Nina Kunert, Tim Dietrich +5
Three-nucleon forces are crucial for the accurate description of nuclear systems, including dense matter probed in neutron stars. We explore nuclear Hamiltonians that reproduce two…
Dense Nuclear Matter Equation of State from Heavy-Ion Collisions
Agnieszka Sorensen, Kshitij Agarwal, Kyle W. Brown +133
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 interact…
Auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo calculations of magnetic moments of light nuclei with chiral EFT interactions
J. D. Martin, S. J. Novario, D. Lonardoni +3
We calculate the magnetic moments of light nuclei () using the auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo method and local two- and three-nucleon forces with electromagnetic cur…
Bayesian model selection for GRB 211211A through multi-wavelength analyses
Nina Kunert, Sarah Antier, Vsevolod Nedora +12
Although GRB 211211A is one of the closest gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), its classification is challenging because of its partially inconclusive electromagnetic signatures. In this pape…
Long Range Plan: Dense matter theory for heavy-ion collisions and neutron stars
Alessandro Lovato, Travis Dore, Robert D. Pisarski +61
Since the release of the 2015 Long Range Plan in Nuclear Physics, major events have occurred that reshaped our understanding of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and nuclear matter at l…
Reverse phase transitions in binary neutron-star systems with exotic-matter cores
Maximiliano Ujevic, Henrique Gieg, Federico Schianchi +3
Multi-messenger observations of binary neutron star mergers provide a unique opportunity to constrain the dense-matter equation of state. Although it is known from quantum chromody…
Modeling Solids in Nuclear Astrophysics with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
Irina Sagert, Oleg Korobkin, Ingo Tews +4
Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a frequently applied tool in computational astrophysics to solve the fluid dynamics equations governing the systems under study. For some p…
Snowmass 2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: The Dense Matter Equation of State and QCD Phase Transitions
Slavko Bogdanov, Emmanuel Fonseca, Rahul Kashyap +26
Our limited understanding of the physical properties of matter at ultra-high density, high proton/neutron number asymmetry, and low temperature is presently one of the major outsta…
Horizons: Nuclear Astrophysics in the 2020s and Beyond
H. Schatz, A. D. Becerril Reyes, A. Best +162
Nuclear Astrophysics is a field at the intersection of nuclear physics and astrophysics, which seeks to understand the nuclear engines of astronomical objects and the origin of the…
Relativistic mean-field theories for neutron-star physics based on chiral effective field theory
Mark G. Alford, Liam Brodie, Alexander Haber +1
We describe and implement a procedure for determining the couplings of a Relativistic Mean-Field Theory (RMFT) that is optimized for application to neutron star phenomenology. In t…
An updated nuclear-physics and multi-messenger astrophysics framework for binary neutron star mergers
Peter T. H. Pang, Tim Dietrich, Michael W. Coughlin +18
The multi-messenger detection of the gravitational-wave signal GW170817, the corresponding kilonova AT2017gfo and the short gamma-ray burst GRB170817A, as well as the observed afte…