Equation of state of cold and dense QCD matter in resummed perturbation theory

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We discuss the Hard Dense Loop resummation at finite quark mass and evaluate the equation of state (EoS) of cold and dense QCD matter in $\beta$ equilibrium.

• The resummation in the quark sector has an effect of lowering the baryon number density and the EoS turns out to have much smaller uncertainty than the perturbative QCD estimate.
• Our numerical results favor smooth matching between the EoS from the resummed QCD calculation at high density and the extrapolated EoS from the nuclear matter density region.
• We also point out that the speed of sound in our EoS slightly exceeds the conformal limit.