Orateur
Description
Astrophysical measurements, especially gravitational waves (GW) from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers, are promising tools to infer the largely unknown properties of dense QCD matter at densities that are presently inaccessible to first-principles theory and laboratory experiments.
In the first part of my talk, I will show how the correlation between the ratio of energy and angular-momentum losses in the late-time ‘long-ringdown’ of the BNS post-merger GW signal and the equation-of-state (EOS) properties of neutron-star cores reduces EOS uncertainties at densities several times the nuclear saturation density.
In the second part, I will present how nuclear-theory and astrophysical constraints, when applied to a large family of holographic V-QCD models, enable Bayesian inference of the conjectured QCD critical endpoint.
