ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Frontiers of perturbative thermal QCD in extreme systems
Predicting the thermodynamic and transport properties of strongly interacting matter at the highest densities in the present-day Universe is a pressing challenge bridging modern particle and astrophysics. Determining whether deconfined Quark Matter (QM), the high-density counterpart of the Quark-Gluon Plasma created in heavy-ion collisions, exists or forms in Neutron Stars (NSs) and their mergers would be a landmark result. However, this task is severely complicated by the Sign Problem of lattice QCD, preventing the direct use of nonperturbative methods. The ExPertQCD project will significantly advance our quantitative understanding of deconfined QM in NS conditions by employing…
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