Konstantin Maslov
NP3M Fellow, Texas A&M University & University of Houston
kmaslov@central.uh.edu
CV INSPIREResearch interests
Equation of state of strongly interacting matter in application to neutron stars and heavy-ion collisions
Phase transitions in neutron stars
Relativistic mean-field models of nuclear and quark matter
Quantum many-body approaches beyond mean-field approximation
About Konstantin Maslov
I am a theoretical nuclear physicist with interests in astrophysics and many-body approaches to describing the dense matter in neutron stars. During my PhD research with Prof. D.N. Voskresensky, I have developed several relativistic mean-field models of neutron star matter which allowed to resolve the so-called neutron star "hyperon puzzle" and were successfully applied to describing neutron star cooling and quark-hadron phase transition with inhomogeneous mixed phases.
Currently my work is focused on development of beyond-mean-field approaches to the hot/dense matter equation of state in order to provide state-of-the-art input for simulations of neutron star mergers. In particular, I am working on extending the self-consistent T-matrix approach, which allows to model the QCD medium as a strongly interacting system of partons and their 2-body resonances with fully taking into account their off-shell properties, to the case of large densities and temperatures achievable in these events.
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