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Tailored for undergraduate researchers, this calendar is a curated list of research seminars at the University of Illinois. Explore the diverse world of research and expand your knowledge through engaging sessions designed to inspire and enlighten.

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Nuclear Physics Seminar - Isaac Legred (Caltech) "Extreme Matter from Extreme Gravity and Back Again"

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Physics Department
Location
464 Loomis
Date
Sep 9, 2024   1:00 pm  
Speaker
Isaac Legred (Caltech)
Contact
Brandy Koebbe
E-Mail
bkoebbe@illinois.edu
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Physics - Nuclear Physics Seminar

Recent observations of neutron stars and nuclear experiments point to substructure in the speed of sound of dense matter, indicating the possible presence of new degrees of freedom. In this talk, I will discuss how this substructure motivates using a flexible equation of state model when inferring the properties of dense matter. Results will include discussion of which physical questions are most naturally answered by model-agnostic analyses of the equation of state. In particular, I will discuss how questions of nuclear physics, such as the existence and character of phase transitions,  can be isolated from questions of neutron-star astrophysics, and what can be learned in this regime from existing observations.

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