Dr. Johannes Jahan
University of Houston
MUSES – Assembling the puzzle of the nuclear phase diagram
Location: 2015 Physics Research Building
Host: Dr. Maria Stefaniak
Abstract: The desire to provide a complete picture for the phase diagram of nuclear matter has led researchers from nuclear physics, astrophysics and heavy-ion communities to join efforts by creating the Modular Unified Solver of the Equation of State (MUSES) project. This theoretical collaboration aims at delivering a cyber-infrastructure modular tool, which offers the possibility to get a variety of equations of states, covering different regions of the phase diagram, as well as related derived observables. Hence, it gathers many different approaches that can be used to address some of the most active research topics of these times: exploring the large density region of the phase diagram, searching for the existence of a critical point of nuclear matter, or studying neutron star properties through gravitational waves detection.
In this talk, I will present the status of the MUSES calculation engine, with an overview of the different modules to be available in the imminent public release, and will give a glimpse of the future plans.
