UConn Physics Colloquium
Superconducting Quarks: Condensed Matter in the Heavens
Professor Mark
Alford
Physics Department
Washington University
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In this talk I will describe the densest predicted state of matter---color-superconducting quark matter. A color superconductor is very different from an "ordinary" electrical superconductor: it occurs at ultra-high density and has a much richer phase structure because quarks come in many varieties. This form of matter may well exist in the core of neutron stars, and the search for signatures of its presence is currently proceeding. |
Friday, March 7, 2008
4:00 P.M.
Gant Science Complex
Physics Department
Room P38
(We will meet for refreshments prior to the talk at 3:30 p.m., in the Gant Science Complex, Physics Library, Room P-103.)