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A remarkable reference work covering an enormous range of material from astrophysics to nuclear and particle physics in an interesting and accessible manner. This is a very important contribution to the literture.
Anthony W Thomas, University of Adelaide, Australia
rkable reference work covering an enormous range of material from astrophysics to nuclear and particle physics in an interesting and accessible manner. This is a very important contribution to the literture.
Anthony W Thomas, University of Adelaide, Australia
Book Description
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 behaviour of superdense matter in terrestrial collider experiments. This book gives an up-to-date 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.
Pulsars as Astrophysical Laboratories for Nuclear and Particle Physics (Studies in High Energy Physics, Cosmology, and Gravitation)
Pulsars as Astrophysical Laboratories for Nuclear and Particle Physics (Studies in High Energy Physics, Cosmology, and Gravitation),Fridolin Weber,Taylor & Francis,0750303328,Astrophysics,Astrophysics & Space Science,Cosmology,Nuclear Physics,Pulsars,Science,Science/Mathematics,Stars,Technology / Lasers
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