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Center for Nonlinear Studies |
Our Universe offers no laboratories to study cold, dense matter at and above nuclear density, save one: the neutron star. In precisely the same way that black hole horizons are unique sites to study strong gravity, the cores of neutron stars are unique sites to study cold dense matter. Much progress has been made recently by observational astrophysicists in inventing and refining techniques toward characterizing the matter in the core of the neutron stars. I will describe this progress, and describe the future work which can lead in the next decade to a holy grail of nuclear physics: the cold dense matter Equation of State.
Host: Sanjay Reddy, reddy@lanl.gov