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PULSARS AS ASTROPHYSICAL LABORATORIES FOR NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
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| By: |
Fridolin Weber |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£87.99 |
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£76.99 |
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£11.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0750303328 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780750303323 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 1999 |
| Series: |
Series in High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation |
| Pages: |
696 |
| Description: |
Discusses how pulsars are ideal probes for various physical studies, focusing on the interface between nuclear physics, particle physics, and Einstein's theory of relativity. This title presents an account of the progress in observational radio and x-ray astronomy. It covers Hartree-Fock self-energies, partial-wave expansion, and stars. |
| Synopsis: |
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 behavior of superdense matter in terrestrial collider experiments. Written by an eminent author, Pulsars as Astrophysical Laboratories for Nuclear and Particle Physics gives a reliable 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. |
| Illustrations: |
1, black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Institute of Physics Publishing |
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Returnable |
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