LGRT 419B
This workshop will focus on our understanding of the equation of state of dense nuclear matter by exploring the connections between terrestrial measurements of neutron skins of nuclei and astrophysical measurements of the properties of neutron stars.
The workshop is timely because of the newly completed running of the PREX-II and CREX experiments at Jefferson Lab, new data from NICER and the upcoming fourth observing run of LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA. It is now time to bring these fields together, formulate a common language and coordinate future directions in both theory and experiment, with the shared goal of understanding neutron matter, from microscopic to the macroscopic scales. Among the questions to be addressed are:
● What are the known and missing links between nuclear interactions and neutron star observations?
● Dense Matter and Neutron stars theory: Prioritize the open questions in calculating the nuclear equation of state at high density? Novel methods to solve the nuclear many-body problems. Can diagrammatic Monte Carlo help? Unified models to connect isolated neutron star structure and neutron stars merger and postmerger dynamics.
● What are the prospects for Neutron Star experimental observations with photons and gravitational waves? What are the theoretical/data analysis tools needed to harness future GW detections to improve the extract of the tidal deformability, and its implications for the dense matter EOS. What are the unique theoretical and experimental challenges for next generation detectors? What are the prospects for NICER and STROBE-X?
● Neutron skin experimental observations: Given the uncertainties from the published results from PREX-II and CREX,what will be the impact on the nuclear equation of state? Which future measurements that are being investigated are useful to further strengthen the impact? What are the theoretical challenges associated with using neutron-skin measurements to constrain three-nucleon forces in EFT based approaches?
Co-organizers:
Laura Cadonati (Georgia Tech)
Krishna Kumar (UMass Amherst)
Sanjay Reddy (U. Washington/Institute for Nuclear Theory)
Schedule
| 8:45am |
| 9:00am | |
| 9:00am |
| 9:45am |
| 10:30am |
| 11:00am |
Gravitational Waves and Tidal Deformability Measurements
Jocelyn Read Fullerton  acfi-amherst-2022.key
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| 11:45am |
| 12:30pm |
| 2:00pm | |
| 2:00pm |
Dense matter physics from observations of neutron star cooling and dynamics
Wynn Ho Haverford College  howynn_22acfi.pdf
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| 2:30pm |
| 3:00pm |
Gravitational Wave Aspects of Merger Dynamics-Waveforms and their Systematics
Tanja Hinderer Utrecht University acfi_hinderer.pdf
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| 3:30pm |
| 4:00pm |
| 4:30pm |
| 6:30pm |
| 9:00am | |
| 9:00am |
Panel: EFT and Estimating EOS Errors at Moderate Density
Christian Drischler, Ingo Tews, Stefano Gandolfi MSU, LANL, LANL Talk PPT
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| 9:45am |
| 10:00am |
Recent Progress on the Fermi Gas from Auxiliary-Field QMC
Shiwei Zhang CCQ, Flatiron Institute Talk PPT
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| 10:30am |
| 11:00am |
| 11:30am |
| 12:30pm |
| 2:00pm | |
| 2:00pm |
| 2:30pm |
Pygmies, Giants, and Skins: Laboratory Experiments Informing the Equation of State
Jorge Piekarewicz Florida State acfi2022.pdf
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| 3:00pm |
| 3:15pm |
| 3:30pm |
| 4:00pm |
| 4:30pm |
| 9:00am | |
| 9:00am |
| 10:30am |
| 11:00am |
