NEW PHENOMENA AND NEW STATES OF MATTER IN THE UNIVERSE

Recent discoveries in astronomy and relativistic astrophysics as well as experiments on particle and nuclear physics have blurred the traditional boundaries of physics. It is believed that at the birth of the Universe, a whirlwind of matter and antimatter, of quarks and exotic leptons, briefly appeared and merged into a sea of energy. The new phenomena and new states of matter in the Universe revealed the deep connection between quarks and the Cosmos. Motivated by these themes, this book discusses different topics: gravitational waves, dark matter, dark energy, exotic contents of compact stars, high-energy and gamma-ray astrophysics, heavy ion collisions and the formation of the quark–gluon plasma in the early Universe. The book presents some of the latest researches on these fascinating themes and is useful for experts and students in the field.

Contents:

• Cosmological Stochastic Gravitational Waves Background (José Antonio de Freitas Pacheco)
• Neutrino Flavor Oscillations in Gamma-Ray Bursts (Jorge A Rueda and Juan D Uribe)
• Gamma-Rays and the New Multi-messenger Astrophysics (Ulisses Barres de Almeida)
• Dark Matter and Dark Energy vs. Modified Gravity: An Appraisal (Daniela Pérez)
• Hot Neutron Star Matter and Proto-neutron Stars (Delaney Farrell, Aksel Alp, Fridolin Weber, William Spinella, Germán Malfatti, Milva G Orsaria and Ignacio F Ranea-Sandoval)
• Review on the Pseudo-complex General Relativity and Dark Energy (Peter O Hess)
• Alternative Gravity Neutron Stars in the Gravitational Wave Era (Pedro H R S Moraes)
• Quark Deconfinement in Compact Stars Through Sexaquark Condensation (David Blaschke, Oleksii Ivanytskyi and Mahboubeh Shahrbaf)

Readership: Graduate students and researchers in high energy physics and astrophysics.

Key Features:

• Chapters written by well-known experts in the field