An overview of the MUSES cyberinfrastructure and what it can do for you
Veronica Dexheimer
(Kent State University)
At high energy, the fundamental description of matter (Quantum
Chromodynamics or QCD) is currently only directly applicable to specific
regimes, leaving large portions of the QCD phase diagram uncharted, especially
around the regime relevant for neutron stars. To bridge different regimes, the
MUSES collaboration has built a cyberinfrastructure that provides descriptions of
matter based on first-principle theories and models across the multidimensional
QCD phase diagram, including thermodynamics but also observables pertinent to
heavy-ion collisions, astrophysics, and more. Our online platform allows users to
choose different descriptions (with different parametrizations), how these are
connected, and what observables they reproduce. The platform is open for
everyone, and all our code is open source.