5–11 Feb 2017
Hyatt Regency Chicago
America/Chicago timezone

Improvements to the T=0 QCD equation of state and rotating neutron star phenomenology

Not scheduled
2h 30m
Hyatt Regency Chicago

Hyatt Regency Chicago

151 East Wacker Drive Chicago, Illinois, USA, 60601
Board: F18

Speaker

Tyler Gorda (University of Helsinki)

Description

I will discuss recent progress in the determination of the quark matter equation of state (EoS) and its applications to the phenomenology of neutron stars (NSs). The current state-of-the-art matched QCD EoS comes from the work of Kurkela el al. (2014), in which the authors matched chiral effective theory (cEFT) at low densities to pQCD at high densities. Since then, the $T=0$, massless-quark, pQCD EoS has been improved beyond $\mathcal{O}(g^{4})$. I will discuss these improvements, as well as improvements to the phenomenology of NSs. In particular, I will detail NS phenomenology taking rotation into account, something that was not done in the original work of Kurkela et al. 2014).

Preferred Track Baryon-Rich QCD Matter and Astrophysics
Collaboration Not applicable

Primary author

Tyler Gorda (University of Helsinki)

Presentation materials