Speaker
Mark Alford
(Washington University in St. Louis)
Description
It has long been hypothesized that above nucleaer density there might be a first-order transition from dense nuclear matter to quark matter, and hence that sufficiently heavy neutron stars might have quark matter cores. I will discuss some of the observable signatures of such a transition, including features of the mass radius relation and of the dynamics of neutron star mergers.
Primary author
Mark Alford
(Washington University in St. Louis)
