Living Reviews in Relativity (Jun 2024)

Theoretical and experimental constraints for the equation of state of dense and hot matter

  • Rajesh Kumar,
  • Veronica Dexheimer,
  • Johannes Jahan,
  • Jorge Noronha,
  • Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler,
  • Claudia Ratti,
  • Nico Yunes,
  • Angel Rodrigo Nava Acuna,
  • Mark Alford,
  • Mahmudul Hasan Anik,
  • Debarati Chatterjee,
  • Katerina Chatziioannou,
  • Hsin-Yu Chen,
  • Alexander Clevinger,
  • Carlos Conde,
  • Nikolas Cruz-Camacho,
  • Travis Dore,
  • Christian Drischler,
  • Hannah Elfner,
  • Reed Essick,
  • David Friedenberg,
  • Suprovo Ghosh,
  • Joaquin Grefa,
  • Roland Haas,
  • Alexander Haber,
  • Jan Hammelmann,
  • Steven Harris,
  • Carl-Johan Haster,
  • Tetsuo Hatsuda,
  • Mauricio Hippert,
  • Renan Hirayama,
  • Jeremy W. Holt,
  • Micheal Kahangirwe,
  • Jamie Karthein,
  • Toru Kojo,
  • Philippe Landry,
  • Zidu Lin,
  • Matthew Luzum,
  • Timothy Andrew Manning,
  • Jordi Salinas San Martin,
  • Cole Miller,
  • Elias Roland Most,
  • Debora Mroczek,
  • Azwinndini Muronga,
  • Nicolas Patino,
  • Jeffrey Peterson,
  • Christopher Plumberg,
  • Damien Price,
  • Constanca Providencia,
  • Romulo Rougemont,
  • Satyajit Roy,
  • Hitansh Shah,
  • Stuart Shapiro,
  • Andrew W. Steiner,
  • Michael Strickland,
  • Hung Tan,
  • Hajime Togashi,
  • Israel Portillo Vazquez,
  • Pengsheng Wen,
  • Ziyuan Zhang,
  • MUSES Collaboration

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s41114-024-00049-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 1
pp. 1 – 115

Abstract

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Abstract This review aims at providing an extensive discussion of modern constraints relevant for dense and hot strongly interacting matter. It includes theoretical first-principle results from lattice and perturbative QCD, as well as chiral effective field theory results. From the experimental side, it includes heavy-ion collision and low-energy nuclear physics results, as well as observations from neutron stars and their mergers. The validity of different constraints, concerning specific conditions and ranges of applicability, is also provided.

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