Special Particle Physics Seminar: Parity doubled baryons will rapidly cool heavy neutron stars

Abstract:

I discuss the possibility of a confined but chirally symmetric phase ("quarkyonic"), where there are massive but chirally symmetric baryons, as first discussed by Detar and Kunihiro. For heavy neutron stars, there is a region of density where a Fermi sea of chiral partners of the nucleons forms. This leads to Urca neutrino emission which is greater by three orders of magnitude over Urca or modified Urca processes.

Seminar Organizer: Dr. Michael Geller