Delayed phase transition to quark-gluon plasma in binary neutron star merger @relastroitp-goetheuniversi1616

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The simulation shows The density of two neutron stars that merge. After the merger, a phase transition from ordinary hadronic matter (red-yellow) to quark matter (green) takes place.

The simulations were performed in order to find out whether such a quark-gluon plasma inside a merger remnant could be detected via graviational waves. See arxiv.org/pdf/1912.09340.pdf for the corresponding publication, which has been accepted to Physical Review Letters.

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