Speaker
Mirco Guerrini
(University of Ferrara and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Description
At the extreme densities reached in the core of neutron stars and related astrophysical phenomena, deconfined quark matter might take place. The formation of this new phase of strongly interacting matter is likely to occur via a first-order phase transition for the typical temperatures reached in astrophysical processes. The first seeds of quark matter would form through a process of nucleation within the metastable hadronic phase.
I will discuss the role of the thermal fluctuations in the hadronic composition on the nucleation of three-flavours quark matter and its implication for the phenomenology of compact stars.
Primary authors
Mirco Guerrini
(University of Ferrara and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Giuseppe Pagliara
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Andrea Lavagno
(Politecnico di Torino and INFN Torino)
Alessandro Drago
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
