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Constraints on strong phase transitions in neutron stars
Tyler Gorda, Kai Hebeler, Aleksi Kurkela +2
We study current bounds on strong first-order phase transitions (PTs) along the equation of state (EOS) of dense strongly interacting matter in neutron stars, under the simplifying…
Thoughts about the utility of perturbative QCD in the cores of neutron stars
Aleksi Kurkela
In this contribution, I discuss the utility that perturbative QCD offers in studying the matter in the cores of neutron stars. I discuss the reasons why perturbative QCD can constr…
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…
AMY Lorentz invariant parton cascade -- the thermal equilibrium case
Aleksi Kurkela, Robin Törnkvist, Korinna Zapp
We introduce ALPACA, a Lorentz invariant parton cascade encoding the AMY effective kinetic theory of QCD at high temperatures. It solves the Boltzmann equation by explicitly simula…
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…
Thermalization of weakly coupled non-Abelian plasmas at next-to-leading order
Yu Fu, Jacopo Ghiglieri, Shahin Iqbal +1
We employ the QCD kinetic theory, including next-to-leading(NLO) order corrections in coupling constant, to study the evolution of weakly coupled non-Abelian plasmas towards therma…