
Dense Matter in Compact Stars
A Pedagogical Introduction
Andreas Schmitt(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 4. September 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
X, 147 pages
978-3-642-12865-3 (ISBN)
Description
The purpose and motivation of these lectures can be summarized in the following two questions: What is the ground state (and its properties) of dense matter? What is the matter composition of a compact star? The two questions are, of course, strongly coupled to each other. Depending on your point of view, you can either consider the ?rst as the main question and the second as a consequence or application of the ?rst, or vice versa. If you are interested in fundamental questions in particle physics you may take the former point of view: you ask the question what happens to matter if you squeeze it more and more. This leads to fundamental questions because at some level of suf?cient squeezing you expect to reach the point where the fundamental degrees of freedom and their interactions become important. That is, at some point you will reach a form of matter where not molecules or atoms, but the constituents of an atom, namely neutrons, protons, and electrons, are the relevant degrees of freedom.
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Series
Edition
2010 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Graduate
Illustrations
23 s/w Abbildungen
X, 147 p. 23 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
520 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-642-12865-3 (9783642128653)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-12866-0
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08/2010
Springer
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Content
Mass and Radius of the Star.- Basic Models and Properties of Dense Nuclear Matter.- Superconductivity and Superfluidity in a Compact Star.- Neutrino Emissivity and Cooling of the Star.- Discussion.