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.
Author
Jorinde van de Vis
(CERN)