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Physics Colloquium QCD Matter Under Extreme Conditions PhysicsPhysics ColloquiumColloquium QCDQCD MatterMatter underunder ExtremeExtreme ConditionsConditions Neda Sadooghi Department of Physics Sharif University of Technology Tehran-Iran October 2006 HowHow everythingeverything began?began? HowHow everythingeverything willwill end?end? 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StructureStructure FormationFormation 100 million years after the Big Bang StarsStars (Quasars,(Quasars, earlyearly activeactive galaxies)galaxies) GalaxiesGalaxies Groups,Groups, ClustersClusters andand SuperclustersSuperclusters SolarSolar SystemSystem 8 billion years after the Big Bang TodayToday 13.7 billion years after the Big Bang LifeLife CycleCycle ofof StarsStars Red Supergiant Planetary Nebula White Dwarf -> Black Dwarf – Nuclear fusion progresses through heavier elements Si fuses to Iron-56 – But: Iron fusion absorbs energy – No further energy overflow to counteract the gravity, and the interior of the star collapses instantly SupernovaSupernova ExplosionExplosion Increase of mass causes the white Dwarf to be blasted apart in a type Ia supernova which may be many times more powerful than the type II supernovae marking the death of a massive star BlackBlack HoleHole NeutronNeutron StarStar The Birth of a Neutron Star The Basic Idea The central part of the star fuses its way to iron but it can't go farther because at low pressures Iron 56 has the highest binding energy per nucleon of any element, so fusion or fission of Iron 56 requires an energy input Thus, the iron core just accumulates until it gets to about 1.4 solar mmassesasses (the "Chandrasekhar mass"), at which point the electron degeneracy pressure that had been supporting it against gravity gives up and collapses inward At the very high pressures involved in this collapse, it is energetically favorable to combine protons and electrons to form neutrons plus neutrinos The neutrinos escape after scattering a bit and helping the supernova happen, and the neutrons settle down to become a neutron star, with neutron degeneracy managing to oppose gravity Since the supernova rate is around 1 per 30 years, and because most supernovae probably make neutron stars instead of black holes, in the 10 billion year lifetime of the galaxy there have probably been 100 million neutron stars formed TheThe CrabCrab NebulaNebula DeathDeath ofof aa MassiveMassive StarStar == BirthBirth ofof aa NeutronNeutron StarStar NeutronNeutron StarStar –– HighHigh densitydensity ~~ 1010 grgr/cc/cc Mass: 1.4 Mass of the Sun Radius: 10 km –– LowLow TemperatureTemperature <10<10 keVkeV Cold nuclear matter –– HighHigh SpinSpin raterate upup toto 3800038000 rpmrpm –– StrongStrong MagneticMagnetic fieldfield:: HighHigh DensityDensity or Cram all of humanity into a volume the size of sugar cube ! LowLow TemperatureTemperature 2727 CC ~~ 300300 KK ~~ 2626 meVmeV TemperatureTemperature ofof thethe corecore ofof thethe SunSun At neutron star’s birth: 100 MeV energy per nucleon ~ Cooling by neutrino production through UCRA process At T < 10 MeV: Neutrino emission Further cooling: StrongStrong MagneticMagnetic FieldField ~~ EarthEarth’’ss magnetmagnet FieldField:: TheThe bindingbinding energyenergy ofof HH--atomatom inin aa magnetmagnet fieldfield isis 160160 eVeV insteadinstead ofof 13.613.6 eVeV inin nono fieldfield TheThe protonsprotons atat thethe centercenter ofof neutronneutron starsstars areare believedbelieved toto becomebecome superconductorsuperconductor atat 100100 millionmillion KK High temperature superconductor at 100 K TheoreticalTheoretical BackgroundBackground CosmologyCosmology ParticleParticle PhysicsPhysics CondensedCondensed MatterMatter PhysicsPhysics QuantumQuantum ChromodynamicsChromodynamics (QCD)(QCD) Strong nuclear force is described by QCD In QCD quarks and anti-quarks: Constituent of hadrons (Baryons and Mesons) Gluons mediate the strong nuclear force Hadrons are built via the mechanism of Spontaneous Chiral Symmetry Breaking Asymptotic freedom Confinement Interquark potential energy ~ distance between them No free quarks unless at Confinement-Deconfinement phase transition QCDQCD MatterMatter underunder ExtremeExtreme ConditionsConditions PhasesPhases ofof MatterMatter inin thethe earlyearly universeuniverse – Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) phase PhasesPhases ofof mattermatter duringduring coolingcooling – Critical Temperatures Spontaneous Chiral Symmetry Breaking Confinement – Deconfinement phase transition PhasesPhases ofof mattermatter inin NeutronNeutron StarsStars – Mechanism of color superconductivity QCDQCD PhasePhase DiagramDiagram QCDQCD MatterMatter underunder ExtremeExtreme ConditionsConditions TheoreticalTheoretical PredictionsPredictions
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