Speaker
Aleksi Kurkela
(CERN and Univ. Stavanger)
Description
I discuss the recent progress in state-of-the art perturbative QCD calculations of the equation of state at large chemical potential. I describe why these calculations that are reliable at asymptotically high densities constrain the equation of state at neutron star densities, and describe how the theoretical calculations can be confronted with multimessenger observations to empirically determine the equation of state. I argue that the properties of the EOS reflect the underlying phase structure and may be used to determine the phase of matter in the cores of neutron stars.
Primary authors
Aleksi Kurkela
(CERN and Univ. Stavanger)
Oleg Komoltsev
(PhD student of University of Stavanger)
