NSF funded Cyberinfrastructure to develop the Quantum Chromodynamics equation of state
05/14/2026
We just wrapped up our 5th annual MUSES collaboration meeting! There was a lot of excitement and intense discussions about our upcoming Heavy-ion collision paper that will mark our Calliope release. Keep your eyes peeled for some exciting updates to the calculation engine soon!
04/23/2026
The MUSES collaboration had a strong showing at the 16th Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement! One highlight to point out is that postdoc Johannes Jahan had a plenary talk on the latest results of our imminent heavy-ion collision release coming out any day now!
04/08/2026
The MUSES collaboration had a strong showing at the 2025 Strangeness in Quark Matter conference held at UCLA! A few highlights include Physics Illinois postdoc Dr. Mateus Reinke Pelicer giving a plenary talk on Nuclear Astrophysics and Kent State University Department of Physics postdoc Dr. Michael Kahangirwe receiving the Best Poster award as well as a Flash Talk!
10/02/2024
New results from some of our MUSES collaborators on the effect of magnetic fields on the Urca Rates in Neutron Stars!
Effect of Magnetic Fields on Urca Rates in Neutron Star Mergers Isospin-equilibrating weak processes, called ``Urca" processes, are of fundamental importance in astrophysical environments like (proto-)neutron stars, neutron star mergers, and supernovae. In these environments, matter can reach high temperatures of tens of MeVs and be subject to large magnetic fie...
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09/25/2024
MUSES postdoc Johannès Jahan from the University of Houston gave an invited talk at FAIRNESS the QCD phase diagram!
Check out his slides here:https://indico.gsi.de/event/18746/contributions/82697/attachments/48715/70745/FAIRNESS_2024-Phase_diagram_overview.pdf
New MUSES module just dropped!
The paper on the CMF++ (chiral mean field model in c++) just hit the arXiv. We are currently alpha testing the entire MUSES collaboration calculation engine, but CMF++ will be made publicly available with the beta release that we're anticipating in October 2024!
06/05/2024
The MUSES collaboration's first collaboration-wide paper was just published in Living Reviews!
01/05/2024
Congratulations to Illinois PhD student Feyisola Nana (left) for receiving the Team Up Poster Award at the 2023 at the National Society for Black Physicists!
She discussed her work on the van der Waals equation of state with multiple conserved charges as part of the MUSES collaboration
10/12/2023
Over the past year, the US nuclear physics community came together to lay out the path for new research over the next 5-10 years. The results of this was written up in the Long Range Plan that was released last week. MUSES members participated in the process by giving talks at the town halls and writing white papers. The MUSES collaboration is especially excited about this blurb in the introduction of the long range plan emphasizing interdisciplinary collaborations!
https://science.osti.gov/-/media/np/nsac/pdf/202310/October-4-LRP-Report.pdf