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UConn Physics Colloquium
Professor
Mark
Alford
Physics Department ,
Washington University
Superconducting Quarks: Condensed Matter in the Heavens
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.
I will give an accessible review of the features of
color-superconducting quark matter, and discuss some ideas for finding
it in nature.
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