Nuclear Physics Colloquium

Venue: Physics Building, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, Seminar Room PHYS 2.116
Time: Monday, October 24, 3:15 pm
Contact: hees@fias.uni-frankfurt.de

Cold Dense Matter: New Insights and Near Term Prospects

Sanjay Reddy (University of Washington)

I will outline how we might combine theory, current and upcoming multi-messenger observations of neutron stars and terrestrial experiments to unravel the properties of cold dense matter. I will discuss calculations of the equation of state (EOS), observations of neutron-star masses and radii, and suggest that taken together they favor a rapid increase in the pressure of neutron-rich matter in the vicinity of  nuclear saturation density. Time permitting, I will discuss the thermal and transport properties of cold dense matter and strategies to constrain them using observations of accreting neutron stars.