From hot lattice QCD to cold quark stars

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The book explores the intersection of Elementary Particle, Collider, and Astrophysics through a thermodynamic model of quark-gluon plasma. It introduces quasiparticle degrees of freedom and connects established models with Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) using the Cornwall-Jackiw-Tomboulis formalism. The work extrapolates QCD results to large baryon densities, aiding in equations of state for heavy-ion collider experiments and neutron star interiors. It suggests quark matter may exist in a hybrid phase within neutron star cores, while bound pure quark stars are not supported by recent lattice results.