• Ab-initio QCD Calculations Impact the Inference of the Neutron-star-matter Equation of State 

      Gorda, Tyler; Komoltsev, Oleg; Kurkela, Eero Aleksi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      We demonstrate that ab-initio calculations in QCD at high densities offer significant and nontrivial information about the equation of state of matter in the cores of neutron stars, going beyond that which is obtainable ...
    • Bayesian uncertainty quantification of perturbative QCD input to the neutron-star equation of state 

      Gorda, Tyler; Komoltsev, Oleg; Kurkela, Eero Aleksi; Mazeliauskas, Aleksas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The equation of state of neutron-star cores can be constrained by requiring a consistent connection to the perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) calculations at high densities. The constraining power of the QCD input ...
    • Cold quark matter at N3LO: Soft contributions 

      Gorda, Tyler; Kurkela, Eero Aleksi; Paatelainen, Risto; Säppi, Saga; Vuorinen, Aleksi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      High-order perturbative calculations for thermodynamic quantities in QCD are complicated by the physics of dynamical screening that affects the soft, long-wavelength modes of the system. Here, we provide details for the ...
    • Evidence for quark-matter cores in massive neutron stars 

      Annala, Eemeli; Gorda, Tyler; Kurkela, Aleksi; Nättilä, Joonas; Vuorinen, Aleksi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-06)
      The theory governing the strong nuclear force—quantum chromodynamics—predicts that at sufficiently high energy densities, hadronic nuclear matter undergoes a deconfinement transition to a new phase of quarks and gluons1. ...
    • Multimessenger Constraints for Ultradense Matter 

      Annala, Eemeli; Gorda, Tyler; Katerini, Evangelia; Kurkela, Eero Aleksi; Nättilä, Joonas; Paschalidis, Vasileios; Vuorinen, Aleksi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Recent rapid progress in neutron-star (NS) observations offers great potential to constrain the properties of strongly interacting matter under the most extreme conditions. In order to fully exploit the current observational ...
    • Nonperturbative analysis of the electroweak phase transition in the two Higgs doublet model 

      Andersen, Jens Oluf; Gorda, Tyler; Helset, Andreas; Niemi, Lauri; Tenkanen, Tuomas V.I.; Tranberg, Anders; Vuorinen, Aleksi; Weir, David J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-11)
      We perform a nonperturbative study of the electroweak phase transition (EWPT) in the two Higgs doublet model (2HDM) by deriving a dimensionally reduced high-temperature effective theory for the model, and matching to known ...
    • On high-order perturbative calculations at finite density 

      Ghisoiu, Ioan; Gorda, Tyler; Kurkela, Aleksi; Romatschke, Paul; Säppi, Matias; Vuorinen, Aleksi (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-02)
      We discuss the prospects of performing high-order perturbative calculations in systems characterized by a vanishing temperature but finite density. In particular, we show that the determination of generic Feynman integrals ...
    • Soft Interactions in Cold Quark Matter 

      Gorda, Tyler; Kurkela, Eero Aleksi; Paatelainen, Risto; Säppi, Saga; Vuorinen, Aleksi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10)
      Accurate knowledge of the thermodynamic properties of zero-temperature, high-density quark matter plays an integral role in attempts to constrain the behavior of the dense QCD matter found inside neutron-star cores, ...
    • Soft photon propagation in a hot and dense medium to next-to-leading order 

      Gorda, Tyler; Kurkela, Eero Aleksi; Österman, Juuso; Paatelainen, Risto; Säppi, Saga; Schicho, Philipp; Seppänen, Kaapo; Vuorinen, Aleksi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      We present the first complete calculation of the soft photon self-energy to the next-to-leading order in a hot and/or dense ultrarelativistic plasma in QED. The calculation is performed within the real-time formalism ...