Neutron rich matter in heaven and on Earth

Abstract

Despite a length-scale difference of 18 orders of magnitude, the internal structure of neutron stars and the spatial distribution of neutrons in atomic nuclei are profoundly connected.

Manuscript published in final form in Physics Today, July 2019, page 30

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• GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
• Shapiro delay measurement of a two solar mass neutron star
• A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary
• Constraining the Maximum Mass of Neutron Stars From Multi-Messenger Observations of GW170817
• Neutron-star radius constraints from GW170817 and future detections
• Neutron skin of 208Pb, nuclear symmetry energy, and the parity radius experiment
• Precision Measurement of the Weak Charge of the Proton

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• Precision Determination of the Neutral Weak Form Factor of ${}^{48}$Ca
• Converged ab initio calculations of heavy nuclei
• Correlations between charge radii differences of mirror nuclei and stellar observables
• Analysis of the neutron matter equation of state and the symmetry energy up to fourth order of chiral effective field theory
• Neutron skin systematics from microscopic equations of state
• Studies of parity violation in atoms
• Probing small neutron skin variations in isotope pairs by hyperon-antihyperon production in antiproton--nucleus interactions
• Weak Charge Form Factor Determination at the Electron-Ion Collider
• Exploring the neutron skin by hyperon-antihyperon production in antiproton-nucleus interactions