Speaker
Jorinde van de Vis
(CERN)
Description
Tentative evidence suggests that the cores of massive neutron stars consist of deconfined quark matter. In this talk, I argue that the formation of such a quark matter core during a galactic supernova could be accompanied by the emission of gravitational waves in the MHz band, and I discuss the computation of the signal. Gravitational wave signals from phase transitions in supernovae constitute a new target for high-frequency gravitational wave detectors, demonstrating that such detectors may offer unique opportunities for testing quantum chromodynamics in an otherwise inaccessible regime.
Authors
Jiheon Lee
(KAIST)
Joachim Kopp
(Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
Jorinde van de Vis
(CERN)
Katarina Bleau
(Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)