Speaker
Aleksi Vuorinen
Description
I will discuss recent model-independent efforts to discover deconfined matter in the cores of massive neutron stars. Such progress is made possible on one hand by the availability of accurate observational information from neutron-star mass-radius and tidal deformability measurements, and on the other hand by the impressive progress in robust first-principles calculations in chiral effective theory and perturbative QCD. I will review the current status of each of these efforts, and conclude by presenting results from a very recent Bayesian calculation suggesting that quark matter is very likely present inside maximally massive stable neutron stars.