Constraining Gravity with Hadron Physics: Neutron Stars, Modified Gravity and Gravitational Waves

05/19/2017
Types d’événements
Séminaires du DPhN
Felipe J. LLANES-ESTRADA
Bat 703, p 135 salle visio-conférence
30 places
Vidéo Projecteur
05/19/2017
from 11:00 AM at 12:00 PM

The finding of Gravitational Waves by the aLIGO and VIRGO scientific collaborations opens opportunities to better test and understand strong interactions, both nuclear-hadronic and gravitational. Assuming General Relativity holds, one can constrain hadron physics at a neutron star. But precise knowledge of the Equation of State and transport properties in hadron matter can also be used to constrain the theory of gravity itself. I review a couple of these opportunities in the context of modified f(R) gravity, the maximum mass of neutron stars, and progress in the Equation of State of neutron matter from the effective theories of QCD.

Universidad Complutense de Madrid