Jeremy Holt

Associate Professor

Phone: 979-845-1411
Email: holt@physics.tamu.edu
Office: CYCL 333 (main office)
https://www.densemattergroup.com/

Research Areas

Nuclear Astrophysics
Nuclear Structure
Nuclear Theory

Biography

Jeremy Holt is a nuclear theorist interested in the physics of hot and dense matter, core-collapse supernovae, neutron stars, compact object mergers and their observable emissions. He received his PhD in physics from Stony Brook University in 2008 under the supervision of Gerald E. Brown. Before joining the Physics and Astronomy department at Texas A&M in 2016, he performed postdoctoral research at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Washington. Professor Holt studies the nuclear microphysics of high-energy astrophysical phenomena through the low-energy realization of quantum chromodynamics, chiral effective field theory.

Institutional Partnerships

Cyclotron Institute
Nuclear Solutions Institute

Selected Publications

C. Drischler, J.W. Holt, and C. Wellenhofer. “Chiral Effective Field Theory and the High-Density Nuclear Equation of State.” Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, 71(1), 403--432, Sep 2021.
Yeunhwan Lim, Anirban Bhattacharya, Jeremy W. Holt, and Debdeep Pati. “Radius and equation of state constraints from massive neutron stars and GW190814.” Phys. Rev. C, 104(3), L032802, Sep 2021.
T. R. Whitehead, Y. Lim, and J. W. Holt. “Global Microscopic Description of Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering with Quantified Uncertainties.” Phys. Rev. Lett., 127(18), 182502, Oct 2021.
Jack Brady, Pengsheng Wen, and Jeremy W. Holt. “Normalizing Flows for Microscopic Many-Body Calculations: An Application to the Nuclear Equation of State.” Phys. Rev. Lett., 127(6), 062701, Aug 2021.
T. R. Whitehead, Y. Lim, and J. W. Holt. “Neutron elastic scattering on calcium isotopes from chiral nuclear optical potentials.” Phys. Rev. C, 101(6), 064613, Jun 2020.
Y. Lim and J. W. Holt. “Bayesian modeling of the nuclear equation of state for neutron star tidal deformabilities and GW170817.” The European Physical Journal A, 55(11), Nov 2019.
Jeremy W. Holt and Yeunhwan Lim. “Dense matter equation of state and neutron star properties from nuclear theory and experiment.” In XIAMEN-CUSTIPEN WORKSHOP ON THE EQUATION OF STATE OF DENSE NEUTRON-RICH MATTER IN THE ERA OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ASTRONOMY. AIP Publishing, 2019.
Jeremy W. Holt and Yeunhwan Lim. “Universal correlations in the nuclear symmetry energy, slope parameter, and curvature.” Physics Letters B, 784, 77--81, Sep 2018.
Zhen Zhang, Yeunhwan Lim, Jeremy W. Holt, and Che Ming Ko. “Nuclear dipole polarizability from mean-field modeling constrained by chiral effective field theory.” Physics Letters B, 777, 73--78, Feb 2018.
Yeunhwan Lim and Jeremy W. Holt. “Neutron Star Tidal Deformabilities Constrained by Nuclear Theory and Experiment.” Phys. Rev. Lett., 121(6), 062701, Aug 2018.