The Nuclear Matter Density Functional under the Nucleonic Hypothesis

A Bayesian analysis of the possible behaviors dense matter equation state informed through recent LIGO-Virgo as well NICER measurements reveals that all present observations are compatible with a fully nucleonic hypothesis for composition matter, even in core most massive pulsar PSR J0740+6620. Under composition, we extract general behavior energy per particle symmetric and density dependence symmetry energy, astrophysical our knowledge low nuclear physics from effective field theory predictions experimental mass data. These results can be used null to confronted future constraints on search exotic degrees freedom.