MUSES hands-on and school

[liner.santos]

Hi all.
I’m learning to use MUSES to study the relation between quark-gluon plasma and neutron stars and I have some asks:
1 - Is there a MUSES hands-on, in which someone solves some application examples with a discussion of the results obtained (something like the jetscape summer school)?
2 - If someone also is starting to use the MUSES and want to talk about it, please let me know in here or by email (linersantos@gmail.com).
3 - About neutron stars: is there some hadronization in the ‘edge’ of the inner core (or is the supposed qgp ‘confined’ by some mechanism)?

[andrew.manning (T. Andrew Manning)]

@liner.santos

2 - If someone also is starting to use the MUSES and want to talk about it, please let me know in here or by email

We would greatly appreciate it if you would communicate as much on the forum as you feel comfortable, because we are trying to bootstrap a user community precisely for this kind of knowledge accumulation and sharing. When people go offline and help each other, it does not generate searchable content or opportunities for other community members to participate in the discussion.

[mrpelicer (Mateus Reinke Pelicer)]

Hi Liner,

@liner.santos

1 - Is there a MUSES hands-on, in which someone solves some application examples with a discussion of the results obtained (something like the jetscape summer school)?

We had a hands-on session during our annual meeting in May, and another at the NP3M summer school in June, but we don’t have another one scheduled at the moment.

You can check out our quickstart, and if something is not working or if it is unclear, please reach out.

@liner.santos

3 - About neutron stars: is there some hadronization in the ‘edge’ of the inner core (or is the supposed qgp ‘confined’ by some mechanism)?

Right now, there is no evidence to support whether we have hadrons or deconfined quarks at the core of neutron stars. So, we just don’t know what’s there.

The majority of models assume that hadrons are present throughout the whole star. There are also models that allow for deconfined quark matter in the core, usually by building a first-order phase transition (or more rarely, a crossover) with the hadronic phase. Models of pure quark stars also exist, but I believe they are less common.

[liner.santos]

@mrpelicer

Hi Liner,

@liner.santos

1 - Is there a MUSES hands-on, in which someone solves some application examples with a discussion of the results obtained (something like the jetscape summer school)?

We had a hands-on session during our annual meeting in May, and another at the NP3M summer school in June, but we don’t have another one scheduled at the moment.
Thanks Mateus.
Are there no recordings of these events in Youtube, right?

You can check out our quickstart, and if something is not working or if it is unclear, please reach out.
Sure. I’m reading the quickstart. It’s clear (I had an ask and one helped me about the output).

@liner.santos

3 - About neutron stars: is there some hadronization in the ‘edge’ of the inner core (or is the supposed qgp ‘confined’ by some mechanism)?

Right now, there is no evidence to support whether we have hadrons or deconfined quarks at the core of neutron stars. So, we just don’t know what’s there.

The majority of models assume that hadrons are confined throughout the whole star. There are also models that allow for deconfined quark matter in the core, usually by building a first-order phase transition (or more rarely, a crossover) with the hadronic phase. Models of pure quark stars also exist, but I believe they are less common.

Then, assuming that there is deconfined quark matter in the inner core, the idea of a crossover seems reasonable, in sense that this region is composed by ‘fluctuations’ (i.e. quarks and gluons from the core eventually ‘come together’ in a hadron, in the same way some hadron ‘disintegrates’) and this process occurs smoothly. I hope I have been at least clear in my idea.

[liner.santos]

Sorry Andrew. Sure, I’ll communicate only by the forum.