Neutron stars: from hadrons to quarks(Part I) Event Date: 2018-05-09 admin AMO/QIS/CMT Speaker: Prof. Gordon Baym / Host: Prof. Miguel A. Cazalilla Place: Intl. Conference Hall, 8F General Building II, NTHU Neutron stars: from hadrons to quarks Our understanding of neutron stars is advancing remarkably. A new windows into neutron star behavior and structure has been the recent direct detection of gravitational and contemporaneous electromagnetic radiation from merging neutron stars. The identification of several two solar mass neutron stars challenges our current understanding of how dense matter can be sufficiently stiff to support such a mass against gravitational collapse. Programs underway to determine simultaneously the mass and radius of neutron stars constrain and inform theories of neutron star interiors. At the same time, an emerging understanding in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) of how nuclear matter can evolve into deconfined quark matter at high baryon densities is leading to advances in understanding the equation of state of the matter under the extreme conditions in neutron star interiors. This talk will review these recent developments and describe the consistent picture of neutron star interiors that is coming into focus.
