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Abstract:

The age of multimessenger astronomy promises to benefit numerous subdisciplines within physics. In particular, precision studies of neutron stars will ultimately shed light on the properties of nuclear matter at several times nuclear saturation density, allowing for protons and neutrons to be studied in ways that terrestrial laboratories cannot achieve. In this talk, I will discuss the opportunities neutron stars present for the study of new physics in the interactions and dynamics of baryonic matter, with a particular emphasis on the physics of baryon number violation.

Spearker: Jeff Berryman, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley