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19 citations · 23 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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nucl-th2026

MUSES workflows for pQCD constraints on dense matter with finite quark masses

Isabella Danhoni, Mateus Reinke Pelicer, Débora Mroczek +3

We present a modular implementation of next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative QCD (pQCD) thermodynamics with finite strange quark mass in the MUSES Calculation Engine, enabling r…

nucl-th2026

Thermodynamically Consistent Merging of Multidimensional QCD Equations of State

Prachi Garella, Yumu Yang, Musa R. Khan +7

We present a thermodynamically consistent framework for merging complementary models into a multidimensional QCD equation of state. An internal mixing variable is determined by min…

nucl-th2026

Studying the QCD Matter produced in Heavy-Ion Collisions using the MUSES Calculation Engine

Johannes Jahan, Kevin P. Pala, Yumu Yang +42

The equation of state of hot and dense matter is essential for describing heavy-ion collisions at all collision energies. Here, we explore the capabilities of the latest version of…

nucl-th2026

Uncertainty quantification of holographic transport and energy loss for the hot and baryon-dense QGP

Musa R. Khan, Ayrton Nascimento, Yumu Yang +5

We investigate several transport coefficients across the phase diagram of a holographic Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton (EMD) model of hot and dense QCD with flavors. Our result…

gr-qc2026

Dynamical tidal response of neutron stars as a probe of dense-matter properties

Abhishek Hegade K. R., Yumu Yang, Mauricio Hippert +3

Dynamical tidal deformations play a crucial role in the gravitational waves emitted by binary neutron star systems during their late inspiral. In this work, we systematically explo…

nucl-th2026

Merging multidimensional equations of state of strongly interacting matter via a statistical mixture

Yumu Yang, Prachi Garella, Musa R. Khan +7

We introduce a general method to merge multidimensional equations of state (EoSs) by combining them in a two-fluid equilibrium statistical mixture in the grand canonical ensemble.…

nucl-th2025

Symmetry Energy of 2+1-flavor dense quark matter from perturbative QCD

Isabella Danhoni, Yumu Yang, Mauricio Hippert +1

The symmetry energy expansion was developed to connect isospin symmetric matter probed in nuclear experiments to asymmetric matter found in neutron stars. Using the isospin asymmet…

nucl-th2025

Symmetry Energy Expansion with Strange Dense Matter

Yumu Yang, Nikolas Cruz Camacho, Mauricio Hippert +1

The quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram at large densities and low temperatures can be probed using both neutron stars and low-energy heavy-ion collisions. Heavy-ion collisi…

nucl-th2025★ 1 cited

Symmetry energy dependence of the bulk viscosity of nuclear matter

Yumu Yang, Mauricio Hippert, Enrico Speranza +1

We clarify how the weak-interaction-driven bulk viscosity and the bulk relaxation time of neutrino-transparent matter depend on the nuclear symmetry energy. We show…

nucl-th2025★ 1 cited

Building Neutron Stars with the MUSES Calculation Engine

Mateus Reinke Pelicer, Nikolas Cruz-Camacho, Carlos Conde +25

Exploring the equation of state of dense matter is an essential part of interpreting the observable properties of neutron stars. We present here the first results for dense matter…

nucl-th2024

Second-Order Transport Coefficients in Neutron Star Mergers

Yumu Yang, Mauricio Hippert, Enrico Speranza +1

In neutron stars, flavor-changing weak interactions determine the equilibrium fraction of protons over neutrons. In binary neutron-star mergers, violent changes in density modify t…

nucl-th2023

Bulk viscosity transport coefficients in neutron star mergers

Yumu Yang, Mauricio Hippert, Enrico Speranza +1

We compute first and second-order bulk-viscous transport properties due to weak-interaction processes in matter in the neutrino transparent regime. The transport coefficients…

nucl-th2023★ 2 cited

Far-from-equilibrium bulk-viscous transport coefficients in neutron star mergers

Yumu Yang, Mauricio Hippert, Enrico Speranza +1

We investigate the weak-interaction-driven bulk-viscous transport properties of matter in the neutrino transparent regime. Previous works assumed that the induced bulk viscos…

gr-qc2021★ 19 cited

Gravity with Explicit Diffeomorphism Breaking

Robert Bluhm, Yumu Yang

Modified theories of gravity that explicitly break diffeomorphism invariance have been used for over a decade to explore open issues related to quantum gravity, dark energy, and da…