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An Extended Chiral Mean-Field Model with Medium-Modified Thermal Mesons for Hot and Dense Hadronic Matter
Micheal Kahangirwe, Rajesh Kumar, Joaquin Grefa +5
In this conference proceeding we review an extension of the Chiral Mean Field (CMF) model that consistently incorporates interacting thermal mesons with self-consistent in-medium m…
Including Thermal Mesons and Meson Resonances in the Chiral Mean-Field Equation of State
Micheal Kahangirwe, Joaquin Grefa, Mateus Reinke Pelicer +3
The Chiral Mean-Field (CMF) model describes dense matter in terms of baryons and quarks interacting through scalar and vector meson mean fields. In the mean-field approximation, th…
Strongly coupled quark matter in neutron stars and their mergers
Konstantin Maslov, Ralf Rapp, Joaquin Grefa +2
The discovery of the strongly-coupled quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) in high-energy heavy-ion collisions has revealed remarkable properties of matter at high temperature, with transport…
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…
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…
S-wave kaon condensation in neutron-star matter within a chiral model framework with dynamical meson masses
Yuhan Wang, Rajesh Kumar, Joaquin Grefa +4
We investigate s-wave kaon condensation in dense matter and neutron stars within the updated Chiral Mean Field model with an improved meson description (mCMF), which incorporates d…
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…
Chemical potential differentials in the QCD phase diagram from heavy-ion isobar collisions
Joaquin Grefa, Chun Yue Tsang, Rajesh Kumar +3
Temperature and baryon, charge, and strangeness chemical potentials characterize QCD matter under extreme conditions. Differences between these chemical potentials and their ratios…
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.…
Relativistic mean-field model with density- and isospin-density-dependent couplings
Gabriel Frohaug, Konstantin Maslov, Veronica Dexheimer +4
We present a new hadronic EoS with hyperons built within the relativistic mean-field (RMF) formalism with baryon-density- and isospin-density-dependent couplings. Motivated by micr…
An Overview of the MUSES Calculation Engine and How It Can Be Used to Describe Neutron Stars
Mateus Pelicer, Veronica Dexheimer, Joaquin Grefa
For densities beyond nuclear saturation, there is still a large uncertainty in the equations of state (EoS) of dense matter that translate into uncertainties in the internal struct…
Interacting mesons as degrees of freedom in a chiral model
Rajesh Kumar, Joaquin Grefa, Konstantin Maslov +5
We study the equation of state of hot and dense hadronic matter using an extended Chiral Mean Field (CMF) model framework where the addition is the inclusion of interactions of the…
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…
Holographic transport coefficients and jet energy loss for the hot and dense quark-gluon plasma
Joaquin Grefa, Mauricio Hippert, Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli +4
We employ an Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton model, based on the gauge/gravity correspondence, to obtain the thermodynamics and transport properties for the hot and dense quark-gluon plas…
Location of the QCD critical point predicted by holographic Bayesian analysis
Mauricio Hippert, Joaquin Grefa, T. Andrew Manning +6
We present results for a Bayesian analysis of the location of the QCD critical point constrained by first-principles lattice QCD results at zero baryon density. We employ a hologra…
Bayesian location of the QCD critical point from a holographic perspective
Mauricio Hippert, Joaquin Grefa, T. Andrew Manning +6
A fundamental question in QCD is the existence of a phase transition at large doping of quarks over antiquarks. We present the first prediction of a QCD critical point (CP) from a…
Hot QCD Phase Diagram From Holographic Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton Models
Romulo Rougemont, Joaquin Grefa, Mauricio Hippert +4
In this review, we provide an up-to-date account of quantitative holographic descriptions of the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in heavy-ion collisions, based o…
Theoretical and Experimental Constraints for the Equation of State of Dense and Hot Matter
Rajesh Kumar, Veronica Dexheimer, Johannes Jahan +57
This review aims at providing an extensive discussion of modern constraints relevant for dense and hot strongly interacting matter. It includes theoretical first-principle results…
Equation of State and Energy Loss of Hot and Dense Quark-Gluon matter from Holographic Black Holes
Joaquin Grefa, Mauricio Hippert, Jorge Noronha +4
By using gravity/gauge correspondence, we construct a holographic model, constrained to mimic the lattice QCD equation of state at zero density, to investigate the temperature and…
QCD Equation of State and Phase Diagram from Holographic Black Holes
Joaquin Grefa, Jorge Noronha, Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler +3
By using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we construct an Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton model to map the thermodynamics of strongly interacting matter. The holographic model, constrained to…
QCD Equilibrium and Dynamical Properties from Holographic Black Holes
Joaquin Grefa, Mauricio Hippert, Jorge Noronha +4
By using gravity/gauge correspondence, we employ an Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton model to compute the equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium properties of a hot and baryon rich strongly co…
Transport coefficients of the quark-gluon plasma at the critical point and across the first-order line
Joaquin Grefa, Mauricio Hippert, Jorge Noronha +4
A bottom-up Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton holographic model is used to compute, for the first time, the behavior of several transport coefficients of the hot and baryon-rich strongly co…
The BEST framework for the search for the QCD critical point and the chiral magnetic effect
Xin An, Marcus Bluhm, Lipei Du +40
The Beam Energy Scan Theory (BEST) Collaboration was formed with the goal of providing a theoretical framework for analyzing data from the Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at the rel…
Hot and dense quark-gluon plasma thermodynamics from holographic black holes
Joaquin Grefa, Jorge Noronha, Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler +3
We present new results on the equation of state and transition line of hot and dense strongly interacting QCD matter, obtained from a bottom-up Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton holographic…