Professor Ernst Rank and the TUM-IAS team invite the scientists of TUM and their guests for coffee each Wednesday. Just come over to the TUM-IAS after lunch between 1:00–2:00 pm and have a coffee with us, meet other scientists and listen to a short talk (10-15 mins) on a recent major TUM publication or issue – aimed specifically at a non-expert audience.
On November 20, Prof. Dr. Laura Fabbietti (Dense and Strange Hadronic Matter group) will give a talk entitled “A Temperature of 800 Millions Degrees in the Cosmic Kitchen”. It is among the most spectacular events in the universe: a merger of neutron stars. An international team of researchers with strong representation from the TUM has completed the first laboratory measurements of thermal electromagnetic radiation arising in such collisions. The resulting data enabled them to calculate the prevailing temperature when such stars merge. The HADES project is making it possible to collect data on strange particles believed to exist only in the core of neutron stars. With their study of strangeness in particles, Prof. Fabbietti's team is helping to lay the foundation for realistic models of neutron stars (TUM press release).
Relevant Publication
The HADES-Collaboration: Probing dense baryon-rich matter with virtual photons. In: Nature Physics (published 29/7/2019). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-019-0583-8.
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