Title:
Neutron stars show their cores
Author:
Ana Lopes
Published:
CERN, 2 June 2020
https://home.cern/news/news/physics/neutron-stars-show-their-cores
From the article:
In a paper just published in the journal Nature Physics, a quintet of researchers including Aleksi Kurkela from CERN’s Theory department provides evidence that massive neutron stars can contain cores filled with free quarks. Such quark matter resembles the dense state of free quarks and gluons that is thought to have existed shortly after the Big Bang and can be recreated at particle colliders on Earth, such as the Large Hadron Collider.