Speaker
Robert Mann
Description
Quark stars — a gravitationally bound quark-gluon plasma — have been
hypothesized to be the last gravitationally stable state of matter preceding collapse into a black hole. Originally such stars were thought to necessarily contain a significant component of strange quarks, but recent work has shown that up-down quark matter can be more stable than ordinary nuclei at sufficiently large baryon number beyond the periodic table. I shall describe how such up-down quark stars open up new possibilities for astrophysical searches for such objects as well as new tests of general relativity.
| Keyword-1 | Astrophysics |
|---|---|
| Keyword-2 | Quark |
| Keyword-3 | Gravitation |
Author
Robert Mann
