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Neutrons from fragmentation of light nuclei in tissue-like media: a study with GEANT4 toolkit
Igor Pshenichnov, Igor Mishustin, Walter Greiner
We study energy deposition by light nuclei in tissue-like media taking into account nuclear fragmentation reactions, in particular, production of secondary neutrons. The calculatio…
Pulsar kicks via spin-1 color superconductivity
Andreas Schmitt, Igor A. Shovkovy, Qun Wang
We propose a new neutrino propulsion mechanism for neutron stars which can lead to strong velocity kicks, needed to explain the observed bimodal velocity distribution of pulsars. T…
Gapless phases of color-superconducting matter
Igor A. Shovkovy, Stefan B. Ruester, Dirk H. Rischke
We discuss gapless color superconductivity for neutral quark matter in beta equilibrium at zero as well as at nonzero temperature. Basic properties of gapless superconductors are r…
Chemical equilibration due to heavy Hagedorn states
C. Greiner, P. Koch-Steinheimer, F. M. Liu +2
A scenario of heavy resonances, called massive Hagedorn states, is proposed which exhibits a fast ( fm/c) chemical equilibration of (strange) baryons and anti-baryons a…
Two lectures on color superconductivity
Igor A. Shovkovy
The first lecture provides an introduction to the physics of color superconductivity in cold dense quark matter. The main color superconducting phases are briefly described and the…