Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Tuesday, March 27, 2001
4:10pm, Room 118 Physics-Astronomy Building
Nuclear Equation of State
Pawel Danielewicz
Michigan State University
Nuclear equation of state plays an essential role in the
evolution of the Universe, in supernovae explosions, and thus
in heavy-element production, and in stability of neutron
stars. The equation constrains the two- and three-nucleon
interactions and the quantum chromodynamics in the
nonperturbative regime. Despite the importance of the equation,
its features remained, though, fairly obscure. The talk
reviews new results on the equation of state emerging from
measurements of giant nuclear oscillations and from studies of
particle emission in central collisions of heavy nuclei.
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