Exploring the Phase Diagram of V-QCD with Neutron Star Merger Simulations
Abstract
Determining the phase structure of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and its Equation of State (EOS) at densities and temperatures realized inside neutron stars and their mergers is a long-standing open problem. The holographic V-QCD framework provides a model for the EOS of dense and hot QCD, which describes the deconfinement phase transition between a dense baryonic and a quark matter phase. We use this model in fully general relativistic hydrodynamic (GRHD) simulations to study the formation of quark matter and the emitted gravitational wave signal of binary systems that are similar to the first ever observed neutron star merger event GW170817.
- Publication:
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European Physical Journal Web of Conferences
- Pub Date:
- August 2022
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2211.10118
- Bibcode:
- 2022EPJWC.27407006D
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- Nuclear Theory
- E-Print:
- 8 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the XVth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum conference (1st-6th August 2022) at the University of Stavanger, Norway