The Structure and Signals of Neutron Stars, from Birth to Death

Session

Plenary session 2

24 Mar 2014, 11:40

Conveners

Plenary session 2

• Constança Providência (University of Coimbra)

120. Hybrid stars: how can we identify them ?

Prof. Mark Alford (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)

24/03/2014, 11:40

At high pressure, nuclear matter will undergo a transition to quark matter, so sufficiently heavy neutron stars may really be ``hybrid stars'' with quark matter cores. We discuss possible signatures of the presence of a quark matter core, such as characteristics of the mass-radius relation, and the allowed range of values of the spin frequency, which is sensitive to quark matter in the...

47. Exploring dense nuclear matter with heavy-ion collisions

Prof. Peter Senger (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)

24/03/2014, 12:20

Nucleus-nucleus collisions provide a unique opportunity to create and to investigate dense nuclear matter in the laboratory. These experiments address fundamental aspects of strong-interaction physics: the nuclear equation-of-state at high baryon densities, the in-medium modifications of hadrons, and the phase transition from hadronic to partonic degrees of freedom. These phenomena play an...