Author: sylvia
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N3AS: New center to focus on physics of ultra-dense neutron stars
By Robert Sanders, Media relations, UC Berkeley. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded UC Berkeley $10.9 million over five years to expand research on the exotic state of matter inside neutron stars [...]
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Sandblasting the r-Process: Spallation of Ejecta from Neutron Star Mergers
Abundances in the third peak (180<A<200) of the r-process pattern produced with PRISM calculation of disk wind conditions of a neutron star merger event, before (blue line) and after spallation […]
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Neutrinos Join Forces to Shed Light on Dark Matter
Neutrinos can “talk” to each other much more than expected within the Standard Model, and this can provide an experimentally testable solution to the dark matter puzzle of the Universe. Can […]
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Can gravitational waves reveal phase transitions in the cores of neutron stars?
Figure caption: Internal structure of a neutron star – predicted by theory. Phase transitions to states of matter containing deconfined quarks, hyperons and meson condensates are possible at the densities […]