TITLE:

Quark Deconfinement in Neutron Stars

DATE:

Friday, September 2nd, 2016

TIME:

3:30 PM

LOCATION:

GMCS 324

SPEAKER:

Dr. Fridolin Weber. Professor of Physics at San Diego State University

ABSTRACT:

Neutron stars are the remnants of massive stars that blew apart in supernova explosions. Gravity compresses the matter in the cores of such objects

to densities that are several times higher than the densities inside of atomic nuclei. At such enormous densities atoms themselves collapse and

neutrons and protons are squeezed so tightly together that their quark contents may be released. In this talk, I will discuss the astrophysical

implications of this phase transition for neutron stars, based on numerical state-of-the-art investigations.

HOST:

Dr. Jose Castillo

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