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 …

We review recent theoretical developments relevant to heavy-ion experiments carried out
within the Beam Energy Scan program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Our main focus …

In the context of the massive secondary object recently observed in the compact-star merger
GW190814, we investigate the possibility of producing massive neutron stars from a few …

Analyses that connect observations of neutron stars with nuclear-matter properties can rely
on equation-of-state insensitive relations. We show that the slope of the binary Love …

The speed of sound of the matter within neutron stars may contain nonsmooth structure
related to first-or higher-order phase transitions. Here we investigate what are the …

We study the possible occurrence of the hadron-quark phase transition (PT) during the
merging of neutron star binaries by hydrodynamical simulations employing a set of …

Neutron star observables like masses, radii, and tidal deformability are direct probes to the
dense matter equation of state (EoS). A novel deep learning method that optimizes an EoS …

Since the release of the 2015 Long Range Plan in Nuclear Physics, major events have
occurred that reshaped our understanding of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and nuclear …

Abstract Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (HBT) correlations for charged pions in central Au+ Au
collisions at s NN= 2.4− 7.7 GeV (corresponding to beam kinetic energies in the fixed target …

Initial conditions for relativistic heavy-ion collisions may be far from equilibrium (ie, there are
large initial contributions from the shear-stress tensor and bulk pressure), but it is expected …