Speaker
Gordon Baym
(University of Illinois)
Description
Recent neutron star observations coupled with the theoretical understanding emerging of the role that quark degrees of freedom play in supporting neutron stars are providing a consistent picture of neutron star interiors. An important key is the finding by the NICER telescope that massive neutron stars have considerably larger radius than nuclear degrees of freedom alone can explain. I will illustrate this picture with a discussion of modern quark-hadron crossover equations of state.
Primary author
Gordon Baym
(University of Illinois)
