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Pulsars as Astrophysical Laboratories for Nuclear and Particle Physics (Hardcover)
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Pulsars as Astrophysical Laboratories for Nuclear and Particle Physics (Hardcover)
Series: Series in High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation
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Pulsars, generally accepted to be rotating neutron stars, are
dense, neutron-packed remnants of massive stars that blew apart in
supernova explosions. They are typically about 10 kilometers across
and spin rapidly, often making several hundred rotations per
second. Depending on star mass, gravity compresses the matter in
the cores of pulsars up to more than ten times the density of
ordinary atomic nuclei, thus providing a high-pressure environment
in which numerous particle processes, from hyperon population to
quark deconfinement to the formation of Boson condensates, may
compete with each other. There are theoretical suggestions of even
more "exotic" processes inside pulsars, such as the formation of
absolutely stable strange quark matter, a configuration of matter
even more stable than the most stable atomic nucleus, T56Fe. In the
latter event, pulsars would be largely composed of pure quark
matter, eventually enveloped in nuclear crust matter. These
features combined with the tremendous recent progress in
observational radio and x-ray astronomy make pulsars nearly ideal
probes for a wide range of physical studies, complementing the
quest of the behavior of superdense matter in terrestrial collider
experiments. Written by an eminent author, Pulsars as Astrophysical
Laboratories for Nuclear and Particle Physics gives a reliable
account of the present status of such research, which naturally is
to be performed at the interface between nuclear physics, particle
physics, and Einstein's theory of relativity.
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