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The underlying open questions in the fields of general relativistic astrophysics and elementary particle and nuclear physics are strongly connected and their results are interdependent. Although the physical systems are quite different, the properties of a merged binary system of two neutron stars and the properties of the hot and dense matter created in high energy heavy ion collisions, strongly depend on the equation of state of fundamental elementary matter. Neutron star mergers represent optimal astrophysical laboratories to investigate the QCD phase structure using a spectrogram of the post-merger phase of the emitted gravitational waves. These studies can be supplemented by observations from heavy ion collisions to possibly reach a conclusive picture on the QCD phase structure at high density and temperature.
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Support comes from “NewCompStar”, COST Action MP1304, from the LOEWE-Program in HIC for FAIR, and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (Grant 671698) (call FETHPC-1-2014, project ExaHyPE). MH gratefully acknowledges support from the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and the Goethe University Frankfurt, while HS acknowledges the Judah M. Eisenberg laureatus Professur endowment. The simulations were performed on LOEWE at CSC-Frankfurt and on Hazelhen at HLRS in Stuttgart.
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Steinheimer, J., Mukherjee, A., Wechselberger, N., Hanauske, M., Schramm, S., Stöcker, H. (2018). The Hot and Dense QCD Equation of State in Heavy Ion Collisions and Neutron Star Mergers. In: Nicolini, P., Kaminski, M., Mureika, J., Bleicher, M. (eds) 2nd Karl Schwarzschild Meeting on Gravitational Physics. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 208. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94256-8_22
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