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2023 - Present
Improving the equation of state finite at temperature and density from a chiral effective model.
Beginning late 2023, I joined NP3M with the goal of obtaining an equation of state (EoS) beyond mean field approximation within the Chiral Mean Field (CMF) model. This in principle should include interacting mesons at finite temperature and density; therefore, as a first step, we have included in-medium vector and pseudoscalar mesons masses that produces a feedback reaction into the CMF's equations of motion. This produced a more realistic EoS at finite temperature that could be compared with lattice QCD results and hadronic models.
2018 - Present
Obtaining a QCD EoS for the hot and dense quark-gluon plasma.
Since starting my Ph.D., I have employed a holographic model, based on the gauge/gravity correspondence, to obtain a EoS for the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). This Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton (EMD) model, constrained to reproduce the lattice QCD thermodynamics, predicts the location of the QCD critical point and the line of first order phase transition and agrees with the state-of-the-art lattice QCD at finite density. The EMD model is also useful to handle near and out-of-equilibrium calculations, and several transport coefficients for the QGP have been computed. As an extension of this work, we have been working on combining this EoS with the ones from other effective models to obtain a comprehensive QCD EoS over a large region of the phase diagram, and including the transport coefficients into heavy-ion collisions/hydrodynamics simulations. This work is conducted as part of the MUSES Collaboration
2018 - 2023
University of Houston, M.Sc. & Ph.D
QCD Equilibrium and Dynamical Properties from Holographic Black Holes
2007 - 2013
Universidad San Francisco de Quito, B. Sc.
General Relativity: second order radar signal delay calculation, and gravitational radiation.
Matlab
Python
Mathematica
C++