activity
20242026
collaborators

7 papers

hep-ph2026

Static linear response of hot and dense QCD matter to electromagnetic fields: Leading hard and soft QCD corrections

Osvaldo Ferreira, Eduardo S. Fraga, Tyler Gorda +3

We compute the static electromagnetic susceptibilities of a hot and dense quark-gluon plasma using perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Our evaluation includes the leading $\…

hep-ph2026

QED cross sections in strong magnetic fields

Olavi Kiuru, Joonas Nättilä, Risto Paatelainen +1

The magnetospheres of magnetars, a class of highly magnetized neutron stars, host magnetic fields exceeding the Schwinger limit, where Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) becomes nonline…

hep-ph2025

A new approach to determine the thermodynamics of deconfined matter to high accuracy

Tyler Gorda, Pablo Navarrete, Risto Paatelainen +3

We demonstrate that at finite density and sufficiently high temperatures, phase-quenched (PQ) lattice simulations combined with perturbation theory provide a new precision approach…

hep-ph2025

Cosmological phase transitions without high-temperature expansions

Pablo Navarrete, Risto Paatelainen, Kaapo Seppänen +1

We introduce a new framework for perturbatively computing equilibrium thermodynamic properties of cosmological phase transitions to high loop orders, using the full four-dimensiona…

hep-ph2025

Quark matter at four loops: hardships and how to overcome them

A. Kärkkäinen, P. Navarrete, M. Nurmela +3

Knowledge of the pressure of cold and dense quark matter (QM) is known to significantly constrain the equation of state of neutron-star matter, a quantity playing a key role in dec…

hep-ph2024

Perturbative QCD meets phase quenching: The pressure of cold quark matter

Pablo Navarrete, Risto Paatelainen, Kaapo Seppänen

Nonperturbative inequalities constrain the thermodynamic pressure of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) with its phase-quenched version, a Sign-Problem-free theory amenable to lattice tr…