Strongly Interacting High Baryon Density Matter

by Prof. Larry McLerran (University of Washington)

Tuesday 4 Mar 2025, 15:30 → 17:30 US/Eastern

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Determinations of neutron star masses, radii and quadrupole moments allow a good determination of the equation of state (EOS) for low temperature high baryon density baryonic matter.

The degrees of freedom become relativistic at a few times nuclear matter density.  This suggests that quarks are the important degrees of freedom.  I argue that such a very rapid transition to a relativistic system of quarks is expected for Quarkyonic matter.  Quarkyonic matter may be thought of as confined degrees of freedom near a Fermi surface surrounding a filled Fermi sea of quarks.  I motivate and explain this.

 

Zoom:https://bnl.zoomgov.com/j/1617489674?pwd=aTmhSZ1ncKD7wWlqQ2iHfoTniiAlOX.1

 

Meeting ID: 161 748 9674

Passcode: 

893268

 

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