Nuclear Particle Astrophysics (NPA) Seminar, Mark G. Alford, Washington University, “Phase conversion dissipation at the quark/nuclear matter interface”

Name: Nuclear Particle Astrophysics (NPA) Seminar, Mark G. Alford, Washington University, “Phase conversion dissipation at the quark/nuclear matter interface”
Start: 2015-12-10T15:45:00-05:00
End: 2015-12-10T16:45:00-05:00
Location: WLC 108

Thursday Dec 10, 2015, 3:45 PM → 4:45 PM US/Eastern

WLC 108

Description

Quark matter may exist in the cores of neutron stars, where gravity compresses matter to the highest densities attained in nature. I will discuss an interesting feature of stars with a quark matter core: heavy damping of density oscillations arising from periodic conversion between nuclear matter and quark matter. I will show that this process can have a dramatic effect on known oscillatory modes, and could therefore provide a signature of the presence of quark matter.

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Nuclear Particle Astrophysics (NPA) Seminar, Mark G. Alford, Washington University, “Phase conversion dissipation at the quark/nuclear matter interface”

WLC 108