Speaker
Veronica Dexheimer
(Kent State University)
Description
In this talk I review our current understanding of the interior of neutron stars and modern constraints relevant for dense matter. This 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. I also discuss the relevance of isospin, strangeness, and magnetic fields on the dense and hot equation of state.