ELFT HÍRADÓ

[Biro Tamas <biro.tamas AT wigner.mta.hu>]

Dear Colleagues,

our next  Wigner Colloquium / Wigner kollokvium /  will be held on

Nuclear Equation of State: from Laboratory to Heavens

by Prof. Pawel Danielewicz (MSU)

on Tuesday May 28, 2019, 2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Europe/Budapest
in the Meeting room in  Building 1 on the KFKI campus
(Budapest, Konkoly-Thege Miklos u. 29-33.)


Abstract:

Nuclear equation of state describes how energy and pressure in nuclear 
matter vary with changes in densities of neutrons and protons.  When 
nuclear matter gets compressed in energetic nuclear collisions, the 
pressure building up pushes nuclear matter to the side, giving rise to 
collective motion that correlates nucleons outgoing to the detectors.  
Systematic studies of these correlations allow to arrive at constraints 
on the pressure in nuclear matter as a function of density.  In neutron 
stars, the pressure of compressed nuclear matter opposes gravity, 
preventing collapse of the stars into black holes.  The nuclear matter 
equation of state determines the size and maximum mass of a star, among 
other star features.  Gravitational waves from a merger of neutron stars 
test characteristics of the stars dependent on the equation of state and 
allow to place constraints on that equation as well.  Findings from the 
laboratory and gravitational wave measurements will be compared.


You are welcome to join,

Sincerely

     Tamás Biró.